phalarope
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Small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers;
Breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics (synset 102040118)is a type of: limicoline bird, shore bird, shorebird - any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuariessubtypes:- phalaropus fulicarius, red phalarope - phalarope of northern oceans and lakes
- lobipes lobatus, northern phalarope - breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds; large flocks often seen far out at sea
- steganopus tricolor, wilson's phalarope - breeds on the northern great plains of Canada
belongs to: family phalaropidae, phalaropidae - phalaropes
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