BirdUp · Species
Red Knot
Calidris canutus(Linnaeus, 1758)
EndangeredNative
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
- Conservation
- Endangered
- Commonness
- Rare
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The red knot or just knot 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.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : patchily in high Arctic (mainly) tundra of Holarctic: north-west and east Greenland, north-central Siberia, islands north of north-central and north-east Siberia, and north Chukotskiy Pen. (north-east Siberia)
- Non-breeding range
- SA, Europe, AF, AU : coasts worldwide from temperate zone to tropics; in Indian Ocean mainly west Australia, and in Pacific in New Zealand but rare on other remote islands
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
06 · Gallery
Plumage up close
6 photos
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