grey phalarope
(US gray phalarope)
noun
The phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius, which has grey and white plumage in winter, the underparts changing to a brick-red colour during the breeding season in the high Arctic.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Reinhold Forster (1729–1798).
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