Red knot

Erieau, Ontario, Canada, Sept 20, 2021.
The red knot has brilliant terracotta-orange underparts and intricate gold, buff, rufous, and black upperparts in the summer.
Posed so nicely that I took 250 shots.


Calidris canutus
When Red Knots eat mollusks, they swallow the shells whole and crush them up in the muscular part of their stomach, known as the gizzard. Recent studies indicate that knots have the largest gizzards, relatively to body mass, of any shorebird.
source- Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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