Red Phalarope in the Po Delta, NE Italy, on June 12, 2006

A female Red or Grey Phalarope in breeding plumage was found and photographed by Eddy Boschetti and Nicola Donà at the Sacca di Scardovari, Po Delta, NE Italy, on June 12, 2006. 

The previous observations of this irregular species in the Po Delta was made on May 18, 2003 by Marco Guerrini, Dario Quaranta, Roberto Bonetti and Mauro Bailo in the Comacchio salinas (see picture, this bird with a Black-winged Stilt), and in 1989 by Carlo Guzzon at the Zavelea marsh near Comacchio.

Finally, the last record of the species in the Veneto region dates back to 1971 near Venice.

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