Endangered
Great Knot
Calidris tenuirostris
The great knot is a medium-sized wader.
Appearance
This species has short dark legs and a medium-length thin dark bill. Breeding adults have mottled greyish upper parts, with a distinct band of rufous feathering on the scapular feathers. The face, throat and breast are heavily spotted black, and there are also some streaks on the rear belly.
Adult great knots can measure 26 to 30 cm (10 to 12 in), with a wingspan of 56 to 66 cm (22 to 26 in), and weighing 115 to 261 g (4.1 to 9.2 oz).
Published measurements include mass about 174.
Range and habitat
Their breeding habitat is tundra in northeast Siberia, Russia. It has occurred as a vagrant in Great Britain, Morocco, New Zealand, British Columbia in Canada, and in the lower 48 states of the USA in Oregon, West Virginia, and Maine.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
It is a migratory bird that breeds in eastern Siberia, Russia, and flies to southern Asia and Australia in the northern winter.
In crisis
Great Knot is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Great Knot, Wikidata item Q18876. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
