Let me assure you that this is a juvenile Red-necked Phalarope. A Red Phalarope has a shorter, thicker bill, paler and less striped back (usually more solid pale gray). This bird was one of perhaps 600 hundred on the pond on the north spit at Coos Bay during the annual Oregon Shorebird Festival. Red Phalaropes are only this common at sea, but do sometimes appear onshore after big storms in late autumn (winds 80+ mph).
