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Red knot        Images © Mark A. Chappell

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.
            Other flying knots are here, pictures of (mostly) breeding-plumage red knots are on this page and here; mostly winter birds are on this page.

  • Canon 7D2, 800 mm IS lens + 1.4X converter (2016)