About this species
The Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) is among the largest calidrid sandpipers, with heavily spotted breeding plumage and a distinctively stout bill. It breeds in alpine tundra and sparse larch forests of north-eastern Siberia.
On migration, the species is critically dependent on rich intertidal mudflats along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway and, to a lesser extent, across South Asia along the Central Asian Flyway. Loss and degradation of intertidal staging areas — particularly in the Yellow Sea, where vast areas of mudflat have been reclaimed — has driven steep population declines.
The species was uplisted to Endangered in 2016.
