Great Knot

Calidris tenuirostris

Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_1120 20230309 - fresh breeding plumage. CLICK for one a year later: 20240321.

Notes: Bill longer than head; heavily streaked head & neck. Non-breeding: grey upperparts w.
pale scalloping, white underparts w. streaking on neck grading to spots on the breast; rump &
uppertail-coverts mostly white. Breeding plumage: black spots merge across the chest; rufous
speckles on the upperparts. Juvenile: darker & browner; upperparts w. narrow pale fringes; dark
crown & breast. Cf smaller Red Knot. Breeds in tundra in northeast Siberia in their summer.

Range from Morcombe & Stewart©(modified)
Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_9002 20231023 - Non-breeding plumage. CLICK for another, Cairns
Foreshore 20230923 80 mile Beach, NW WA IMG_4069 20180921 - Non-breeding plumage, crab meal. CLICK for one on Cairns North
Foreshore, FNE Qld 20240302 Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_9187 20201015 upper: Great Knot; middle: Australian Tern; bottom: Red Knot.
CLICK for Great Knot flying. 20231106. Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_8017 20200422 - several Great Knots, surrounding a Red Knot. CLICK for one w.
Nordmann's Greenshank, 20240325. Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_8025 20200422 - breeding & non-breeding plumage. CLICK for another group 20220207 Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_2761 20191029 - partial breeding plumage w. Asian Dowicher. CLICK for two w.
Black-tailed Godwit, 20250119. Foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld IMG_6327 20210319 - partial breeding plumage, eyeing crab body w. Nordmann's
Greenshank. CLICK Nordmann's makes it clear that its "his". Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_7140 20221114 - two non-breeding plumage. CLICK for one with Red Knot, 20231013. Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_8497 20230904 - two flying by. CLICK for another. Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld MVI_3801+3802 20190825 - one in breeding plumage. Curlew Sandpiper early in clip. Foreshore, Cairns, FNE Qld IMG_1203 20240323 Windy Harbour, SW WA MVI_8860 20181022 - non-breeding plumage x 2