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Challenge: Phalarope
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Started conversation May 22, 2011
I leaned about this gender-bending bird on TV Tropes yesterday. The females have the bright plumage and fight for nesting grounds. The males incubate the eggs.
TRiG.
Challenge: Phalarope
KB Posted May 22, 2011
Sounds good, Trig! I might take you up on that one. It's a while since I've written an Entry. 
Challenge: Phalarope
Willem Posted Oct 17, 2011
Other bird species in which the female is bigger and/or more brightly coloured than the male:
Painted Snipes, the Rostratulidae family;
Jacanas, the Jacanidae family;
Buttonquails, the Turnicidae family;
The Plains Wanderer, Pedionomus torquatus.
The females of many bird-of-prey species are larger than the males.
There might be some more but I can't think of them now!
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