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

Red Knots are plump, neatly proportioned sandpipers that in summer sport brilliant terracotta-orange underparts and intricate gold, buff, rufous, and black upperparts.

This chunky shorebird has a rather anonymous look in winter plumage, but is unmistakable in spring, when it wears robin-red on its chest. It nests in the far north, mostly well above the Arctic Circle (the …

Stocky, medium-sized shorebird with relatively short bill and legs. Combination of shape, overall color, and bill size usually distinctive. Beautiful breeding plumage shows entirely salmon-orange underparts …

Nov 20, 2025 · The Red Knot is a stocky, medium-sized shorebird with a rather short bill and legs. It is unmistakable in its breeding plumage, with an intricately patterned gray, black, and rufous back and …

Red knots are small, brownish birds that fly more than 9,000 miles from south to north every spring and repeat the trip in reverse every autumn, making this bird one of the longest-distance migrants in the …

Learn facts about the red knot’s habitat, diet, range, life history, and more.

The red knot spends most of the year in flocks, sometimes with other species. As the knot heads north to breed in the tundra of the central Canadian Arctic, its plumage becomes rusty red and then returns …

The Red Knot is a medium-sized shorebird with a distinctive plumage that changes dramatically between seasons. In breeding plumage, it displays a striking rusty-red face, breast, and underparts, …

Red knots are stocky shorebirds known for their rusty red plumage during the breeding season. As champions of long-distance migration, many individuals fly nearly 19,000 miles annually between …