Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus

Texas Status: Uncommon to rare fall migrant in the western third of Texas, they are however rare to very rare in the eastern half of Texas including the offshore areas. There are two records from Texas Pelagics trips. Red-necked Phalaropes have occasionally been reported from coastal and offshore waters during the late summer and fall. Fall migrants are found from mid-August through mid-October. (1)

(1) TOS Handbook of Texas Birds; by Mark W. Lockwood and Brush Freeman (2005)

Seasonal Occurrence Graph

Texas Pelagics Sightings Distribution 

Map 1) The above live Google map shows the geographic distribution of Red-necked Phalarope found in Offshore Texas from lat-long data I’ve captured from 35 years of Texas Pelagics. 
Click on the box in the upper left of the map to view the map legend.
Click on each sighting symbol and the data label will appear showing the time, date and the number of birds seen.
Click on the symbol on the top right of the map to view a larger map.

The next two map images are copied from eBird.

Map 2) The below map is zoomed into Texas and Louisiana to show individual locations.

Map 3) The bottom map is zoomed out to show the GOM, the northern Caribbean Sea and the adjacent western tropical Atlantic ocean. 

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