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Calidris: Red Knot, Cox's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidrid, Sanderling, Dunlin, Temminck's Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint

Calidris: Red Knot, Cox's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidrid, Sanderling, Dunlin, Temminck's Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint


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Chapters: Red Knot, Cox's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidrid, Sanderling, Dunlin, Temminck's Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Red-Necked Stint, Great Knot, White-Rumped Sandpiper, Purple Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Surfbird, Baird's Sandpiper, Long-Toed Stint, Rock Sandpiper. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tringa canutus 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. It is a large member of the Calidris sandpipers, second only to the Great Knot. Six subspecies are recognised. Their diet varies according to season; arthropods and larvae are the preferred food items at the breeding grounds, while various hard-shelled molluscs are consumed at other feeding sites at other times. North American breeders migrate to coastal areas in Europe and South America, while the Eurasian populations winter in Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. This species forms enormous flocks when not breeding. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Tringa canutus. One theory is that the Red Knot gets its name and species epithet from King Canute, Knot being another form of Canute; the name would refer to the knot's foraging along the tide line and the story of Canute and the tide. Another etymology is that the name is onomatopoeic, based on the bird's grunting call note. The diversification events may be associated with the Wisconsinan (Weichselian) glaciation 18,000 to 22,000 years ago; the opening of the ice-free corridor in North America 12,000 to 14,000 years ago; and the Holocene climatic o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=31271


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155858487
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 159 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155858484
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Red Knot, Cox's Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Calidrid, Sanderling, Dunlin, Temminck's Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint
  • Width: 229 mm


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