The Wilson Phalarope at Santa Barbara
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On the morning of the 30th of April, 1909, while scanning a flock of small sandpipers in the muddy flats near the railway track at Santa Barbara, my glass fell upon a bird which at the second or third glance I saw to be a Wilson Phalarope (Steganopus tricolor), a female in handsome plumage; and presently I discovered nearby her plainly drest small mate. In the afternoon I found the pair in the same place, and watcht them at short range as long as I pleased. Both birds were still present May 2d, 4th, and 6th. On each of the next three days I saw the male only, and on the 10th I left home for two months. It amused me to notice how to the very last I involuntarily thought of the bright large female as the male, and vice versa.
Santa Barbara, California.
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Torrey, Bradford
(1909)
"The Wilson Phalarope at Santa Barbara,"
Condor: Vol. 11
:
Iss.
5
, Article 11.
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https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/condor/vol11/iss5/11