WHSRN: 1st Meeting of the Red Knot Working Group


Red Knot (Calidris canutus)
Photo credit: Art Morris, birdsasart.com


The rufa subspecies of Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) is perhaps the most threatened shorebird in the Western Hemisphere. The population which numbered 100,000 just 15 years ago has fallen to fewer than 30,000 today. Other Red Knot subspecies in the New World are also threatened. A remarkable international coalition of academic, government, and non-governmental scientists and conservationists is working with the philanthropic community to halt the decline and recover these populations.


 
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    Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/13/2010 10:00 AM
    Categories: Birds
    Tags: working group shorebirds birds populations Red knot conservation
     

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