Red-necked Phalarope

Phalaropus lobatus

'Phalarope' means 'coot-foot': like a coot, it has lobed flaps on its toes instead of webbed feet. Lobatus, the second half of its scientific name, means 'lobed.'

Phalaropus comes from the Greek phalaris, 'coot,' and pous, 'foot.' An early English name for it was 'the coot-footed tringa.'