By Yucatan Times on January 6, 2021
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Wilson’s Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor, Falaropo Pico Largo (Spanish)
If Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz were a bird, she would have been a Wilson’s Phalarope. First, she wore brighter colors than any of the males just like a female phalarope displays her resplendent plumage during breeding season. Nothing discouraged her from her goal to reach the male wizard. A female Wilson’s Phalarope fights other females to win a male. Dorothy met all challenges to attain her goal to return to Kansas. Almost every Wilson’s Phalarope rests and replenishes in central Kansas enroute from saline lakes of the Andean highlands and grasslands of South America to breed in southern Canada and western US prairie marshes and lakes.