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Defined: DKZ00017
English Red Knot
Scientific (Calidris canutus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Scolopacidae
Family (English) Sandpipers, Snipes
Other name(s) canutus
Breeding Regions NA, EU
Breeding Range Subregions n
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Barbados,Belarus, Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bolivia,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Cameroon,Canada, Central African Republic,Chile,China,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Denmark,Dominican Republic, Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Guiana,Gabon, Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Greenland,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana, Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel, Ivory Coast,Japan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Lithuania,Luxembourg, Malaysia,Mali,Mauritania,Mexico,Mongolia,Montenegro,Montserrat,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar, Namibia,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,New Zealand,Nicaragua,Nigeria,Norway,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Paraguay, Peru,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia, Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovenia,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan, Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Taiwan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey, Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
canutus nc Siberia
piersmai New Siberian Arch.
rogersi Chukotsk Pen. (e Siberia)
roselaari Wrangel I. (ne Siberia) and nw Alaska
rufa n Canada
islandica islands off n Canada and n Greenland
IUCN Status Code NT (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Knutt
French Bécasseau maubèche
Chinese 红腹滨鹬
Japanese コオバシギ
Russian Исландский песочник
Spanish Correlimos gordo
Portuguese maçarico-de-papo-vermelho / seixoeira
Bird Data App text {Northern migrant}. A large stocky sandpiper. Grey in non-breeding plumage. Migrates from the northern arctic to as far south as south Argentina and South Africa.
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)