[Length 6.25 in. Wingspan 10 in.]

This female Eastern Wood-Pewee was photographed at Valley Land Fund's Sheepshead Street lots, South Padre Island, Texas. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. (Date: May 2, 2011)

[Length 8 in. Wingspan 13 in.]

This Greater Pewee was photographed at Roselawn Cemetery, McAllen, Texas. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. (Date: December 4, 2010)

[Length 8 in. Wingspan 13 in.]

This Greater Pewee was photographed at Roselawn Cemetery, McAllen, Texas. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. (Date: December 4, 2010)

[Length 8 in. Wingspan 13 in.]

This Greater Pewee was photographed at Roselawn Cemetery, McAllen, Texas. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Nikkor 300mm f/2.8G IF-ED lens + Nikkor TC14E II 1.4x Teleconverter (EFL=630mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. (Date: December 4, 2010)

[Length 6.25 in. Wingspan 10.5 in.]

This Western Wood-Pewee was photographed at Devil's Tower National Monument, Wyoming. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 2000)

[Length 7.75 in. Wingspan 11 in.]

This Phainopepla was photographed at Hurkey Creek Campground in southern California. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: October 1990)

[Length 8.5 in. Wingspan 17 in.]

This Red Phalarope was photographed resting in the gravel (not sitting on a nest) along Gas Well Road in Barrow, Alaska. Photo taken with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: June 1989)

[Length 8.5 in. Wingspan 17 in.]

Few people get to enjoy the beautiful breeding plumage of the Red Phalarope without travelling to the high Arctic regions of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland, or Siberia, where they breed. Phalaropes have reversed the roles of the sexes. Females court males, and the males incubate the eggs and care for the young after they hatch. This stunning female was photographed in the small marsh at the south end of Trautman Lake at Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Photo taken with a 300mm f4.5 Nikkor ED lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: May 1989)