WINTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE GREY PHALAROPE PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS
- 1 July 1953
- Vol. 95 (3) , 483-491
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1953.tb00708.x
Abstract
Summary.: 1. Recent published and unpublished observations of Phalaropus fulicarius confirm the existence of a large wintering area off North‐west Africa, from Cape Blanco to Sierra Leone.2. Published observations in the South Atlantic off South Africa indicate the presence of wintering birds. Some birds have been recorded well inland (probably. vagrants).3. Phalaropes off North‐west Africa seem most concentrated where the plankton is densest. Probably the same holds good for the south, though no great numbers have been seen here yet.4. The parallel of the Humboldt Current off South America lends support to the belief in a wintering area off the Cape.Keywords
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