Accounts by those who have studied these rare birds in their Arctic home agree that the male carries the domestic burden, quite in the traditional Phalarope manner. Dixon says their flight song is as illusive as a will-o' the-wisp. The bird drops in a series of aerial "steps," voicing a buzzing trill at each pause and disappears silently when the ground is reached. Altho he writes this of the male I suspect it is the lady who gives the recital.
Western Alaska.