Calidris canutus rufa
Near Threatened by IUCN
Nonbreeding adult
Pelican Peninsula
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Note: The Red Knot makes one of the longest yearly migrations of any bird, traveling
9,300 miles from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego in southern South America.
The bird is near threatened because of the harvesting of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay.
This bay is a critical stopover point during spring migration.
The birds refuel by eating the eggs laid by these crabs.
There is concern that the bird may go extinct in the next few years.