P. DeBenedictis 1965 Red Phalarope 23 June Barrow, Alaska - food items. No courtship seen. 24 June Again saw birds feeding in the muskox area by pecking at small tufts or clumps of moss, picking them up with a pecking motion throwing them aside. Sometimes they stop to move to peek at some object newly exposed and sometimes they seem to suddenly go after a prey item that is fleeing the moss pile being searched. Birds feeding like this are in shallow water, standing on the bottom and the moss clump are just exposed just under the surface. The species is (still) quite social, groups of 3s or 4s only being encountered as well as groups of odd separate, but pairs are also to be seen. The birds in the Elson Lagoon area were also seen to peck at moss clump and throw them aside although not as frequently as at the muskox area. Chaser involving 1-5 birds were seen on several occasions and few pairs were noted. Phalaropes were seen in Central Marsh for 1st time. 25 June Widely distributed and social in low, flooded areas in all areas visited. No courtship seen and no obvious nests found. 27 June Birds were seen flying over the Barrow area in the morning and were widely distributed. An attempted copulation was seen in the afternoon; they are more widely distributed than on June 25 but less common in any one area and are still quite prone to get up and fly several hundred yards without much provocation