Wilson's phalarope


noun
  1. a phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, that breeds in the prairie regions of North America and winters in Argentina and Chile.

Origin of Wilson's phalarope

1
1820–30, Americanism;see Wilson's storm petrel

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