Red Knot at Wollumboola, NSW
Identification history
| Calidris canutus | 11 Dec 2018 | CharlesDove | ||
| Tringa brevipes | 10 Dec 2018 | KumikoCallaway |
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User's notes
12 birds in one group. Sorry for the low quality as they were quite far. We were on holiday from Canberra and have no experience in shore birds ID. We tried out best guess :)
4 comments
KumikoCallaway
wrote:
12 Dec 2018
Thank you, Charles. My other guesses were Red Knot and Great Knot from the field guide. The reason I did not choose knot was because the birds seemed to have longer beak than knots. However, tattlers seem to be on the rock and shore more than in the water and body seem to be longer in proportion than the birds I saw. Bird ID on the coast is hard for me but it was a good challenge.
CharlesDove
wrote:
13 Dec 2018
yes not very common down this way although you do see the odd one know and then sometimes where the ferry crosses over to Comerong Island on rocks. Just a quick look at your pic, you could have one Great Knot amongst them but would need a better look at the photo.
KumikoCallaway
wrote:
14 Dec 2018
Thank you for your additional comment. I hope that I have a chance to take better photos next time!
Location information
- Coordinates 150.772230-34.942213
- Maps Jervis Bay National Park
- Places Wollumboola, NSW
Sighting information
- 12 Abundance
- 8 Dec 2018 12:52 PM Recorded on
- KumikoCallaway Recorded by
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Birds Shorebirds Water birds KumikoCallaway South Coast NatureMapr
Species information
- Calidris canutus Scientific name
- Red Knot Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Endangered *
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 26.5m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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