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Great Knot

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The Great Knot, Calidris tenuirostris, is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species. Their breeding habitat is tundra in northeast Siberia.

Red Knot

Animals; Birds

The Red Knot, Calidris canutus (just Knot in Europe), is a medium sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia.

The Surfbird is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is usually classified in a genus of its own, as Aphriza virgata, but more recent data suggests it is very close genetically to the ...

Little Ringed Plover

Animals; Birds

The Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius) is a small plover. Their breeding habitat is open gravel areas near freshwater, including gravel pits, islands and river edges in Europe and western Asia.

Small Pratincole

Animals; Birds

The Little Pratincole or Small Indian Pratincole (Glareola lactea), is a small wader in the pratincole family, Glareolidae. The Little Pratincole is a resident breeder in India, Western Pakistan and ...

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Animals; Birds

The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Limicola falcinellus, is a small wading bird. It is the only member of the genus Limicola. This bird's breeding habitat is wet taiga bogs in Arctic northern Europe and ...

Baird's Sandpiper

Animals; Birds

The Baird's Sandpiper (Calidris bairdii) is a small shorebird. Their breeding habitat is the northern tundra from eastern Siberia to western Greenland.