Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius
Red Phalaropes are the largest members of this family, and one that spends by far the most of its life at sea, so the least
photographed. As with other phalaropes, the female, above, is the larger and brighter, reversing the usual sexual dimorphism among
birds. The bird below is mostly molted to non-breeding plumage, and was photographed some miles offshore on a pelagic birding
trip on Monterey Bay.
