Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

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Introduction
 
Methods
 
Results
 
Acknowledgments
 
Literature Cited
 
Table 1
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Species Accounts, Maps, Histograms, and Appendices
 
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Family Scolopacidae

Body Size: Medium
Foraging Guild: Aquatic/pelagic gleaner
Foraging Habitat: Water depth - wet to deep; vegetative cover - bare to sparse
Migration Distance: Intermediate
Migration Pattern: Widespread
Dispersion: Moderately dispersed; 60% of total maximum sightings occur in 5 spring and 6 fall 0.1° lat-long blocks.

Six sites with highest counts (see Appendix for more information):

1. Great Salt Lake area, Utah

2. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Kansas

3. Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada

4. Between Cactus Lake and Etter, Moore County, Texas

5. Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Nebraska

6. Chaplin Lakes, Saskatchewan

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