Oriental Bird Images
 

 
<<Previous       Next >> 
Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris   - Leg-flagged individual
Great Knot
Photographer : © Ashish Babre
Location :Chinchani Village, Dahanu Taluk, Palghar District, Maharashtra, India
Date : 18 August 2016
English synonyms:Greater Knot, Great Sandpiper, Eastern Asiatic Knot, Asiatic Knot, Eastern Knot
Bird Family :Tringinae - Godwits, Curlews, Shanks, Sandpipers, Tattlers, Turnstones, Dowitchers, Knots, Stints, Dunlin, Ruff & Phalaropes
Bird Group :CICONIIFORMES
Red Data Status :Vulnerable
Remarks :The bird was apparently ringed and flagged at Chongming Island, Shanghai, China.
Ref:
Shorebird Color Flagging Protocol on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway at http://www.eaaflyway.net/migratory-waterbirds-in-eaaf/coordination-of-colour-marking/