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Portrait of a female red-necked phalarope on a lake, staring directly at the camera, having her beak open.

Plumage and gender roles of the red-necked phalaropes

5. February 2025

While male birds are typically the more colorful ones, red-necked phalaropes have reversed gender roles, and the males look a bit duller than the females.
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Group of purple sandpipers foraging in the water. Two of them in the middle are in focus. In front and behind them are out of focus sandpipers.

The parental roles of purple sandpipers.

29. August 2024

Purple sandpipers are monogamous, male and female share the egg incubation, but hatching the male is the only one taking care of the chicks.
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