Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Scolopacidae > Calidris canutus > Calidris canutus rufa

Calidris canutus rufa (Red Knot)

Synonyms: Tringa rufa

Prey / Diet

Darina solenoides[1]
Limulus polyphemus (horseshoe crab)[2]
Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)[1]
Travisia olens[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Monitoring of the declining rufa Red Knots at Río Grande wintering site, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Patricia M. González, Allan J. Baker & Luis Benegas, Global Flyway Network: progress report for 2007 (2008), p. 18-21
♦ 2Food and feeding of the declining rufa Red Knots at its major austral stopover: San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina, Patricia M. González, Global Flyway Network: progress report for 2007 (2008), p. 22-26
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0