phalarope

How to use phalarope in a sentence

• The Grey phalarope, without being one of our rarest birds, is not of irregular occurrence.

  British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. Johns

• We cannot well leave these fresh-water lochs without a passing glance at the Red-necked phalarope.

  Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles Dixon

• Some partridges (tetrao saliceti), ducks, and a flat-billed phalarope (P. fulicarius) were shot.

  Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 | John Rae

• The nest of the red phalarope is built either on dry ground or over shallow grass-grown water and is well concealed.

  Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) | Arthur Cleveland Bent

• If the fly escaped, the phalarope sometimes ran after it, bill out.

  Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) | Arthur Cleveland Bent