Calidris canutus
Red knot
©US Fish and Wildlife Service: Mispillion Harbor, Delaware.
©Leo: Pambula Beach, NSW, Australia.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Species
Calidris canutus
Status
unspecified
Colours
Distinguishing features
Distinguishing features still need to be specified.
Size
- Size data has not been obtained.
Wingspan
- Wingspan data is not yet available.
Synonyms
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Local abundance
- Lizard Island, Queensland, Australia: Domm (1977) records the Red Knot at Eagle Island but not Lizard Island between 1973 and 1976. He notes that less than 10 birds at a time were seen in summer at Eagle Island. Smith (1987) also records the species as a regular visitor to Eagle Island during the period 1983 to 1986, noting up to 33 individuals. The single record from Lizard Island is from 1 March 1977, by Queensland Department of Resources and Land Management (Atlas of Living Australia, 25 March 2012).
Web resources
References
- Domm, S. (1977). Sea birds and waders of the Lizard Island area, The Sunbird, 8: 1-8. LIRS catalog number 4.
- Smith, G.C. (1987). The birds of Eagle Island, a tropical sand cay on the northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia, The Sunbird, 17(1): 1-11. LIRS catalog number 245.