page_title: Red-necked phalarope
section_title: Breeding
hierarchical_section_title: Red-necked phalarope / Ecology / Breeding
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Odinshühnchen Phalaropus lobatus , Ei, Coll. Museum Wiesbaden English: Red-necked phalarope Phalaropus lobatus , egg, Coll. Museum Wiesbaden
context_page_description: The red-necked phalarope is a small wader. This phalarope breeds in the Arctic regions of North America and Eurasia. It is migratory, and, unusually for a wader, winters at sea on tropical oceans.
context_section_description: The typical avian sex roles are reversed in the three phalarope species. Females are larger and more brightly coloured than males. The females pursue and fight over males, and will defend their mate from other females until the clutch is complete and the male begins incubation. The males perform all incubation and chick-rearing activities, while the females may attempt to find another mate. If a male loses his eggs to predation, he may re-pair with his original mate or a new female to try again. Once it becomes too late in the breeding season to start new nests, females begin their southward migration, leaving the males to incubate the eggs and look after the young.
  The nest is a grass-lined depression at the top of a small mound. Clutch size is usually four splotchy olive-buff eggs, but can be fewer. Incubation is about 20 days. The young mainly feed themselves and are able to fly within 20 days of hatching.
caption: Eggs, from the Museum Wiesbaden
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