Great Knot
Calidris tenuirostris(Horsfield, T, 1821)
English (US) Great Knot
The Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds montane tundra of northeastern Siberia from Yakutsk eastward to Anadyr Peninsula; winters coasts from northeastern Arabian Peninsula eastward to Taiwan, Phillipines, and AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Calidris tenuirostris
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- Great Knot
- Described by
- (Horsfield, T, 1821)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Totanus tenuirostris
- Described by
- (Horsfield, T, 1821)
- Type locality
- Java.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 13, pt.1 p.192
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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