Red Knot: Calidris canutus rufa
This brochure gives information about the migrating Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) and threats these birds face. The red knot is a little shorebird that weighs less than a cup of coffee but is a master of long-distance aviation. Biologists have identified five races of red knot, three of them livi...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2005
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7282/t3cz37wv https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/18019/ |
| Summary: | This brochure gives information about the migrating Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) and threats these birds face. The red knot is a little shorebird that weighs less than a cup of coffee but is a master of long-distance aviation. Biologists have identified five races of red knot, three of them living in the Western Hemisphere. Surveys of wintering knots along the coasts of southern Chile and Argentina, and during spring migration in Delaware Bay on the U.S. coast, indicate a serious population decline. |
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