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Bookmark or Share- Red knot | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...Red knots are stocky shorebirds known for their rusty red plumage during the breeding season. As champions of long-distance migration, many individuals fly nearly 19,000 miles annually between their breeding and wintering grounds.
- Red Knot Life History - All About BirdsRed Knots from eastern North America have declined sharply in recent decades owing in part to unsustainable harvest of horseshoe crab eggs, and they have become a flagship species for shorebird conservation in the twenty-first century.
- Red Knot (Calidris canutus) | U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceOverview. A robin-sized shorebird, the red knot is truly a master of long-distance aviation. Scientific Name. Calidris canutus. Common Name. Red Knot. Kingdom. Animalia. Location in Taxonomic Tree. Genus. Calidris. Species. Calidris canutus. Identification Numbers. TSN: 176642. Characteristics. Habitat. Food. Behavior. Physical Characteristics.
- Red Knot | Audubon Field GuideThis chunky shorebird has a rather anonymous look in winter plumage, but is unmistakable in spring, when it wears robin-red on its chest. It nests in the far north, mostly well above the Arctic Circle (the first known nest was discovered during Admiral Peary's expedition to the North Pole in 1909); its winter range includes shorelines around ...
- Red knot - WikipediaThe red knot or just knot (Calidris canutus) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the great knot. Six subspecies are recognised.
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