Great knot
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The great knot is a medium-sized wader. It is one of the largest species in the genus Calidris. It is a migratory bird which breeds in eastern Siberia, Russia, and flies to southern Asia and Australia
Calidris tenuirostris, Nadezhdinsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia 1
Calidris tenuirostris Laem Phak Bia
Great knots at Lee Point, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Surfbird
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The surfbird is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. It was once considered to be allied to the turnstones, and placed in the monotypic genus Aphriza, but is now placed in the genus Calidr
Great knot
…Siberia, Russia, and flies to southern Asia and Australia in the northern winter. Within the genus Calidris the great knot is most closely related to the surfbird (Calidris virgata). The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The…
Aphriza virgata Cayucos 1
In worn breeding plumage
Surfbird in Humboldt County, California.
Surfbirds in winter plumage with a ruddy turnstone (left), black-bellied plover (second from left) and black turnstones (back).