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Common Name

Red Knot

Alternate Names

Common Type

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Calidris

Species

camitis

Conservation Status

Near Threatened

Location Photographed

Number of Sub-Species

Six Sub Species

Migratory or Resident

Migratory

Preferred Habitat

As a wader is found in coastal areas around the world.

Distribution and Range

The subspecies have great circumpolar variance. Usually they breed in the high Arctic then migrate to coasts around the world.

Food

In their breeding grounds, knots eat mostly spiders, arthropods, and larvae obtained by surface pecking, and on the wintering and migratory grounds they eat a variety of hard-shelled prey such as bivalves, gastropods and small crabs that are ingested whole and crushed by a muscular stomach. In the Delaware bay they rely on the horseshoe crab eggs.

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Field Notes:

One of the longest distance migrants in the animal kingdom and relies heavily on the same stopping sites each years. After breeding in the Arctic the female leaves before the young fledge while the males stay on. After the young have fledged, the male begins his migration south and the young make their first migration on their own

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