Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) - HBW 3, p. 519
French: Bécasseau de l'Anadyr
German: Großer Knutt
Spanish: Correlimos Grande
Other common names: Eastern/Greater Knot, Great Sandpiper
Taxonomy: Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield, 1821, Java.
In past, genus Calidris was on occasion reserved for present species and C. canutus only. Monotypic.
Distribution: NE Siberia, from Verkhoyansk Mts E to Magadan, Koryak Highlands and S Chukotskiy Peninsula; distribution poorly known. Winters mainly in SE Asia and Australia; also in Arabia, Pakistan, NW & NE India and Bangladesh.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird feeding on a wetland. Locality Modhva, Kutch District, Gujarat, India (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 February 2011 10 weeks ago 31 sec 4 -
A bird feeding on the mudflat. Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Robert Schaefer 25 September 2010 1 year ago 15 sec 4 -
An individual feeding on the water. Locality Modhva, Kutch District, Gujarat, India (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 15 February 2011 10 weeks ago 27 sec 3.8 -
A large tight group feeding on a receding tide. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 31 January 2011 50 weeks ago 49 sec 3.8 -
Several birds resting at high tide Locality Cairns, Queensland, Australia (Monotypic species)
Peter Nash 19 October 2006 5 years ago 50 sec 3.5 -
two birds (with Grey Plover) on breakwater Locality Mandurah Harbour, Mandurah, Western Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 5 February 2011 52 weeks ago 12 sec 3
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Great Knot, Adult winter birds with Bar-tailed Godwit, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Mark Andrews 15 February 2007 2 years ago 4 -
Juvenile with a leg injury, Beidaihe, Hebei, China
Locality Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 27 October 2007 2 years ago 4 -
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris)
Locality Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Guy Poisson 16 November 2005 1 year ago 3.1 -
Great Knot, roosting flock, Cairns, Australia
Locality Cairns Esplenade, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Mark Andrews 5 February 2007 2 years ago 3 -
Adult summer, Laoting, Hebei, China
Locality Hebei, China (Northern)
Mark Andrews 17 May 2007 2 years ago 3 -
Stopoff of the migratory bird
Locality Ishikawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan
Mitsuru Akimoto 12 October 2010 26 weeks ago 2.9
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