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These guys are one of my favorite shorebirds for sure. It was a surprise to see one on the Ray Hennessy workshop in Stone Harbor, NJ (usually they show up there around May, not late-June). Luckily, this individual had his wonderful breeding colors on—-a real treat after photographing them in winter plumage this January. To include the blue strip of ocean in this shot, I positioned my lens a couple inches off the sand. I was completely covered in wet sand afterwards hah!
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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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Psalm 25:4-5
The Red Knots story is very moving and inspirational. When they leave the extreme southern tip of South America every spring they travel over 9,000 miles to their high Arctic breeding grounds. They fly at 20,000 ft of altitude in very thin air for up to 2,000 miles non-stop. When they left they weighed as much as an avocado, but have lost half that when they stop.
The Red Knots have made Delaware Bay their last stop before the Arctic for many thousands of years due to the spawning of a primary food source....Horseshoe Crabs. They fill the sandy beaches of the rich estuary, laying their small, greenish eggs full of fat and protein.....just what the depleted birds need to finish their journeys. Over the decades, the crabs numbers have seriously declined in part because of their popularity as fish bait and their use in medical purposes.
Due to conservation efforts, it's hoped that the Red Knots plight can be turned around. The 90,000 birds that stopped on Delaware Bay in the 1980's, now number 20,000. They are classified as near-threatened....meaning without conservation they are at risk of becoming endangered. The time and effort of the many volunteers aiding their survival is moving to see....I only hope it is successful.
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Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
New Jersey
The plumage colors seem highly variable for this species during their migration northward. Only a few birds seem to have this deep beautiful coloring on both chest and wings. Getting one isolated always seems a challange.
Like most birds, Red Knots have a preen gland at the base of the tail that secretes a waxy oil. When preening, they cover their feathers in these protective waxes by bringing the bill to the gland, then rubbing the bill across and under the feathers. As the breeding season approaches, the chemical composition of this wax changes to a form that mammal predators can't easily detect.
Le Bécasseau maubèche, avec une longueur qui atteint 25 cm et une envergure qui peut dépasser les 50 cm, est le second plus grand bécasseau, après le Bécasseau de l'Anadyr, et cela saute aux yeux quand on le voit avec d'autres limicoles. Il est à mi-chemin entre un Bécasseau variable et un Pluvier argenté par exemple.
En plumage nuptial, il est inconfondable de par sa taille, sa silhouette et ses couleurs. C'est un bécasseau assez ramassé et corpulent avec un bec droit et noir de la longueur de la tête et des pattes noires plutôt courtes. Si on associe à ça les sourcils, les joues et les parties inférieures d'un rouge-orange prononcé, on tient notre oiseau. Le reste est du détail comme la calotte, la nuque et la majorité des parties supérieures couvertes de tectrices orangées et noires. La femelle est un peu moins voyante.
Taken at Bolivar Flats where we saw so many beautiful shorebirds like Piping Plovers and Redknots and many Terns (Sandwich, Least, Black, Caspian, Common, Forster's, Gull-billed and Royal) and a Great Blacked- backed Gull and rare for there but not for me a Long-tailed Duck. I loved looking at the plumes on this bird in breeding plumage. They are such cool looking herons. I only saw 2 of them my whole trip.
Red Knot
[Calidris canutus]
Stone Harbor, NJ
"The Golden Hour"
The red knot had fishing line coming from its tail but I spot removed it. I sent the tag information in with a picture that had the fishing line. I was waiting to post this when I got the tag information but it is taking too long. I think I saw this bird in a later photo and the fishing line had come off.
You never know what you are going to get at the high tide roost at Port Seton, East Lothian. Here we have Red Knot (looking rather grey). Turnstone. Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover and even a Starling thrown in. This was taken in mid-August
Réalisé le 07 septembre 2018 à Kamouraska, Québec.
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Made on September, 07th / 2018 in Kamouraska, Quebec.
Taken in Florida.
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Red Knot in breeding plumage walking on the beach
Tri-state region, East Coast, USA
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Red Knot in nonbreeding plumage taking off
Southwest Florida, USA
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Three Sandwich Terns (1 adult, 2 juveniles); two Red Knot, one Common Redshank and three Bar-tailed Godwits
Press Z or at least L - you'll get some detail on the birds and it seems to make it a touch more abstract.
A head on shot of part of huge flock of Knot that flew low over our heads back out onto the Wash. An amazing sight and sound.
Another photo of the very obliging knot at Snettisham last month. I was there again yesterday so more knot photos to come...
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Every spring, the Red Knot migrates from their winter home in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina to Southhampton Island in the Canadian Arctic for breeding & in the fall they return to Tierra del Fuego. The total distance between Tierra del Fuego & Southhampton Island is approximately 9,300 miles. Every year, they had to fly 18,600 miles. Theirs is a story of survival. Along the way are predators. Along the way may also be a lack of food to sustain their long journey. They arrive in the shores of NJ on Delaware Bay fully emaciated & must have the Horseshoe Crab eggs for nourishment & enable them to further fly north to the Canadian Arctic.