- phalarope - small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the arctic and winter in the tropics
--1 is a kind of shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird
--1 is a member of Phalaropidae, family Phalaropidae
--1 has particulars:red phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius; northern phalarope, Lobipes lobatus; Wilson's phalarope, Steganopus tricolor