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Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris   - Adult in breeding plumage
Photographer :	© Martin Hale
Location :	Mai Po, Hong Kong
Date :	7 April 2009
Equipment :	1d3, 800 5.6
Alt. Common Name :	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 :	Unspecified
Remarks :	with Curlew Sandpipers
Taxonomic Notes :

Select images of the species : 1. Great Knot >> Adult in breeding plumage 2. Great Knot >> Assuming breeding plumage 3. Great Knot 4. Great Knot 5. Great Knot >> 1st summer 6. Great Knot >> Flock 7. Great Knot >> Adult assuming non-breeding plumage 8. Great Knot >> Adult assuming non-breeding plumage 9. Great Knot >> Adult assuming non-breeding plumage 10. Great Knot >> Adult assuming breeding plumage 11. Great Knot >> Winter (non-breeding) 12. Great Knot >> Non-breeding 13. Great Knot >> Non-breeding 14. Great Knot >> Non-breeding in flight 15. Great Knot >> Juvenile moulting into 1st winter plumage 16. Great Knot >> Juvenile moulting into 1st winter plumage 17. Great Knot >> Juvenile moulting into 1st winter plumage 18. Great Knot >> Juvenile moulting into 1st winter plumage 19. Great Knot >> Adults 20. Great Knot >> Adult non-breeding 21. Great Knot >> Adults non-breeding 22. Great Knot >> Adults moulting into non-breeding plumage 23. Great Knot >> Non-breeding 24. Great Knot >> Non-breeding 25. Great Knot >> In flight 26. Great Knot >> In flight from below 27. Great Knot >> In flight from above 28. Great Knot >> Adult in breeding plumage 29. Great Knot >> Adult in breeding plumage 30. Great Knot >> Pullus 31. Great Knot >> Pullus 32. Great Knot >> Assuming breeding plumage 33. Great Knot >> Assuming breeding plumage 34. Great Knot >> Non-breeding 35. Great Knot >> Assuming breeding plumage 36. Great Knot 37. Great Knot >> Winter (non-breeding) 38. Great Knot >> Summer (breeding)