[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This Red-necked Phalarope was photographed at Loch of Funzie RSPB Reserve, Funzie, Fetlar, Shetland, Scotland, Great Britain. Photo taken with a Nikkor 180mm EDAF-D f2.8 lens (EFL=270mm) on a Nikon D100 camera. (Date: June 7, 2004)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This Red-necked Phalarope was photographed at Lakeside Park, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=405mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: September 27, 2007)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This Red-necked Phalarope was photographed at Lakeside Park, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=420mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: September 27, 2007)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This Red-necked Phalarope was photographed at Lakeside Park, Andrews, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 70-200mm EDAF-S VR f2.8 lens (EFL=300mm) on a Nikon D200 camera. (Date: September 27, 2007)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This female Red-necked Phalarope was photographed swimming in the Granary Ponds at Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1991)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 15 in.]

This pair of Red-necked Phalaropes was photographed along the edge of the Lake Hood seaplane marina in Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Ektachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1984)

[Length 8.5 in. Wingspan 17 in.]

This Red Phalarope was photographed resting in the gravel (not sitting on a nest) along Gas Well Road in Barrow, Alaska, USA. Photo taken with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1989)

[Length 8.5 in. Wingspan 17 in.]

Few people get to enjoy the beautiful breeding plumage of the Red Phalarope without travelling to the high Arctic regions of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, or Siberia, where they breed. Phalaropes have reversed the roles of the sexes. Females court males, and the males incubate the eggs and care for the young after they hatch. This stunning female was photographed in the small marsh at the south end of Trautman Lake at Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, USA. Photo taken with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1989)