Birdwatching: To be or not to be, red phalarope or…

Birdwatching: To be or not to be, red phalarope or…: For much of November the question most often asked of me was, “what phalarope is this?” It was a “to be or not to be” kind of question. Many did not believe that the large number of small, spinning shorebirds we were seeing were actually red phalaropes. It was often argue