Another beautiful evening at Stone Harbor Point! We had great looks at Lesser Black-backed Gulls in various plumages. The question arose of where the name Red Knot originated. I didn't know the answer but here's what I found; knot is a derivative from the birds latin name "canutus" (full name calidris canutus rufa).......so it seems plausible that canutus was shortened to cnut (as in king cnut), quite incorrectly because canutus means grey (as in grey winter plumage of the Knot). Oddly and equally plausible is the fact that british knots originate via Denmark where King Cnut is known to have come from...so somewhere in history the canutus (grey) became distorted with the danish king "Cnut" which then translated to English usage of Knot. Leaders: Warren Cairo, Gail Dwyer, and Nancy Watson.
26 species (+1 other taxa)
Black Scoter 1
Common Loon 1
Northern Gannet 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 2
Osprey 2
American Oystercatcher 17
Black-bellied Plover 2
Semipalmated Plover 28
Ruddy Turnstone 5
Red Knot 25
Sanderling 50
Dunlin 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 50
Western Sandpiper 25
Laughing Gull 20
Ring-billed Gull 10
Herring Gull 18
Lesser Black-backed Gull 12
Great Black-backed Gull 50
Caspian Tern 6
Royal Tern 8
Merlin 1
Peregrine Falcon 1
Tree Swallow 115
sparrow sp. 3
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