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Common Name
Red Knot
Alternate Names
Common Type
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Species
camitis
Conversation Status
Near Threatened
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.