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
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).
Red knot
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The red knot or just knot is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is the type species of the genus Calidris. Six
Surfbird
…subfamily Arenariinae. With the turnstones it has even been treated as its own family. More recent data suggests it is very close genetically to the red and great knots and should be included in Calidris. Indeed, the great knot looks very much like a larger, longer-billed, and somewhat darker surfbird…
Rufa red knot in Delaware Bay, New Jersey
Red Knot 1 Boat Harbour
Large flocks of C. c. islandica winter in the coastal marshes of Britain, along with other waders. The Wash, Norfolk.
Nonbreeding adult