Red Knot

What the Red Knot sounds like

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Flight call · Genêts, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Owen Camus · Arrondissement de la Rochelle (near Saint-Xandre), Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Sonothèque ADVL · Nocturnal flight call · Carolles, Manche, Normandie, France · CC0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Red Knot

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

Where to see the Red Knot

The map shades 128 countries with regular records, and 11 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 Guinea, St. Martin, Macao SAR China, Luxembourg, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Jamaica, St. Barthélemy, North Korea, Yemen, Palau.

About the Red Knot

The red knot or just knot 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.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Little StintCalidris minutaIts small size, fine dark bill, dark legs and quicker movements distinguish this species from all waders except the other dark-legged stints. Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaThe curlew sandpiper is a small wader 18–23 cm in length and weighing 44–117 g. Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopusThe stilt sandpiper resembles the curlew sandpiper in its long bill, long neck, pale supercilium and white rump.