#0684 · 🐦 birds

Red Knot

🇳🇱 Kanoet ·Calidris canutus

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Miguel A Mejias, PhD. · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © ken_simonite · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Wayne Fidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © naturpel · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Samuel Amaris · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paolo Zucca · CC BY 4.0
7. © Russ Hoverman · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The red knot ( Calidris canutus ) (just knot in English-speaking Europe) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the great knot. Six subspecies are recognised.

base stats

NL sightings 195iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,322iNaturalist observations
weight 148 gadult, up to
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).