Bird name:

Great Knot

Calidris tenuirostrisOrder: CHARADRIIFORMES Family: Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Codes: Common Name: GRKN Scientific Name: CALTEN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 176645

Great Knot Juvenile - The juvenile Great Knot has brown upperparts and white underparts with a black and brown spotted head, neck, and breast.

Great Knot - The breeding adult Great Knot has a black spotted head, brown upperparts, a black and brown spotted white chest and a bright patch of orange-brown on the wing coverts.

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Great Knot

Great Knot: Medium sandpiper with brown upperparts showing dark spots on crown and back, and white underparts with black spots on breast and sides. Bill is short and black. Wings show bright patch of orange-brown on coverts. Legs and feet are gray-green. Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Song: "nyut nyut"

● Foraging & Feeding: Great Knot: Feeds by probing in mud and sand along shorelines and mudflats. Often mixes with other shorebirds. Feeds on insects in breeding season and bivalves during winter.

● Breeding & nesting: Great Knot: Breeds on subarctic or montane tundra, often among rocks and low ground vegetation. Lay four gray yellow eggs with red brown flecks that both parents incubate for 21 days. After eggs hatch, female leaves chicks in care of male. Young birds make first flight when 20 to 25 days.

● Similar species: Great Knot: Red Knot smaller, with shorter bill, lacks strong black spotting. Surfbird has much shorter, orange-based bill and orange legs.

Flight Pattern

Has steady direct flight of all Calidris sandpipers, but wingbeats looser and slower.

● Range & Habitat: Great Knot: Breeds in subarctic and montane tundra of northeastern Siberia, winters along the coasts of southeast Asia and Australia. Very rarely observed on west coast of Alaska in spring.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^Population

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight5.9 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Great Knot

Great Knot

Flight Pattern