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The red knot or just knot (Calidris canutus) is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. Monterey Bay, California.

The red knot (Calidris canutus) in breeding plumage on shore

Photo a black-tailed godwits (Limosa limosa) in the Sado River in the Setúbal district, South of Portugal.

A short-billed dowitcher hunts for food in a mud flat in Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina.

$Red Knot (Calidris canutus) summer plumage with a few retained winter feathers, stretching leg\n\nEccles-on-sea, Norfolk, UK. July$

$L 19-22cm, WS 37-42 cm.\nBreeds on coasts, rocky Tundra and in marshes on barren mountainsides up to the snowline, inn winter and on passage found on coastal rocks (look for it on extensive areas of wave-washed, seaweed covered rocks), usually in flocks, often with Turnstones, occasionally also at pools near coast; rare inland.\n\nThis is a quite common Species along the Dutch Coast by the described Habitats.$