phalanges

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Martínez said she enjoyed trying Argentine specialties including empanadas and yerba mate and also came away with a deep fascination for Wilson’s phalaropes.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

In Argentina, California students saw flocks of flamingos and learned that the lake — where Wilson’s phalaropes soon would arrive — is being polluted with sewage and plastic trash.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

In September, flocks of phalaropes will arrive in Argentina’s plains and gather at Laguna Mar Chiquita, the largest saline lake in the hemisphere, where they will congregate alongside pink flamingos.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Martínez, now a sophomore at Cal State Long Beach, said learning about the phalaropes prompted her to change her major from interior design to zoology.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Fifty-three per cent of the food of twenty-eight northern phalaropes from one locality consisted of mosquito larvae.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple