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Red Knot Calidris canutus Scientific name definitions

Allan Baker, Patricia Gonzalez, R. I. G. Morrison, and Brian A. Harrington
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020

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Birds of North America

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Distribution of the Red Knot - Red Knot -
Distribution of the Red Knot
Figure 5. Annual cycle of breeding, molt, and migration of Red Knots - Red Knot -
Figure 5. Annual cycle of breeding, molt, and migration of Red Knots

Annual cycle of breeding, molt, and migration of Red Knots wintering in Argentina (C. c. rufa). Thick lines show peak activity; thin lines, off-peak.

Figure 1. Distribution of the Red Knot in North and Middle America. - Red Knot -
Figure 1. Distribution of the Red Knot in North and Middle America.

This species also winters in South America and breeds in Europe and Asia. See text for details.

Figure 2. Flock of wintering Red Knots near cliffs of Golfo San Jose in Argentina. - Red Knot -
Figure 2. Flock of wintering Red Knots near cliffs of Golfo San Jose in Argentina.

Photo courtesy of David C. Twichell.

Figure 3. Red Knots feeding at Coquina Siesta Key, Florida. - Red Knot -
Figure 3. Red Knots feeding at Coquina Siesta Key, Florida.

Photo courtesy of David C. Twichell.

Figure 4. Flight song of the Red Knot - Red Knot -
Figure 4. Flight song of the Red Knot

Flight song of the Red Knot (C. c. islandica). Recorded in June 1990 at Alert, Ellesmere I. by T. Piersma. Prepared by staff of Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, The Ohio State University, using a Kay Elemetrics DSP 5500 Sona-Graph (with effective frequency resolution of 150 Hz and a 200-point FFT transform size).

Recommended Citation

Baker, A., P. Gonzalez, R. I. G. Morrison, and B. A. Harrington (2020). Red Knot (Calidris canutus), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.redkno.01
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