Abstract Until recently, the migration route and wintering areas of Red-necked Phalaropes Phalaropus lobatus breeding in Scotland was a matter of speculation, since no foreign ringing recoveries existed for this population. In 2013, a male fitted with a geolocator the previous year was retrapped on its breeding grounds in Shetland. Data from the tag revealed that the bird had followed a westerly m

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