RED KNOT-1606-7571

Harris Brown-ALL rights reserved. This image may not be used for ANY purpose without written permission.

 

Cape May County, New Jersey USA

 

Red Knots are plump, neatly proportioned sandpipers that in summer sport brilliant terracotta-orange underparts and intricate gold, buff, rufous, and black upperparts. This cosmopolitan species occurs on all continents except Antarctica and migrates exceptionally long distances. Red Knots from eastern North America have declined sharply in recent decades owing in part to unsustainable harvest of horseshoe crab eggs, and they have become a flagship species for shorebird conservation in the twenty-first century. This guy has shed most of his breeding plumage.

 

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Nikon Z9 camera with Nikon 500mm f 5.6 E PF lens.

1/2500 F5.6 ISO 320

 

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

Psalm 25:4-5

 

 

 

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