Rufa Red Knot Background Information and Threats Assessment

Rufa Red Knot Background Information and Threats Assessment
Rufa Red Knot Supplemental Listing Document.pdf2.99 MB

Supplement to Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Threatened Status for the

Rufa Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) [Docket No. FWS–R5–ES–2013–0097; RIN AY17]

Author(s)
Wendy Walsh, New Jersey Field Office
Senior Fish & Wildlife Biologist
Endangered Species
Expertise
Endangered Species Act,
coastal issues (beach nourishment, dredging),
coastal species (rufa red knot, piping plover, seabeach amaranth),
offshore wind
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Area
NJ
Galloway,NJ
Publication date
Type of document
Report
Facility
New Jersey Pinelands
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Species
A group of juvenile and adult red knot forage along the shoreline.

Length: 25-28 cm. Adults in spring: Above finely mottled with grays, black and light ochre, running into stripes on crown; throat, breast and sides of head cinnamon-brown; dark gray line through eye; abdomen and undertail coverts white; uppertail coverts white, barred with black. Adults in...

FWS Focus
Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank
Subspecies
Ecosystem
Coastal
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Northeast