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Red knots are medium-sized shorbirds with epic migrations that take them from their high Arctic breeding grounds to Central and South American beaches. They pass through the continental US during a few weeks in spring and again in late summer and fall, and a few spend the winter. These birds were in various stages of transition between the gray winter plumage and the bright rusty-bellied breeding plumage (photographed in April as they were heading north). The photos were taken at the Salton Sea, in far southern California. Some color-flagged birds in this flock were banded in Baja California, Mexico or Grays Harbor, Washington. |
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