Great Knot

When to see the Great Knot

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Great Knot

The map shades 34 countries with regular records, and 8 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Ireland, Spain, Mongolia, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia.

About the Great Knot

The great knot is a medium-sized wader. It is one of the largest species in the genus Calidris. It is a migratory bird which breeds in eastern Siberia, Russia, and flies to southern Asia and Australia in the northern winter.

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Easily confused with

Long-toed StintCalidris subminutaThe long-toed stint is a very small wader measuring just 13 to 16 cm (5.1 to 6.3 in) in length with a wingspan of 26.5 to 30.5 cm (10.4 to 12.0 in). Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisThis species is brown above and has a buff face and underparts in all plumages. Rock SandpiperCalidris ptilocnemisAdults have short yellow legs and a medium thin dark bill.