20-22 cm
It is a swimming wader with a very similar appearance to the Red-necked phalarope, but slightly larger and with a shorter and thicker bill than this one.
Taken from a days sailing out of Cork harbour with my father. It was a great day all in all with 7 grey phalarope, 3 juvenile sabine's gulls, 1 sooty shearwater, 1 pomarine skua, a couple of storm petrels and 6 bottle nosed dolphins.
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