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Red knot (Calidris canutus), a candidate species for listing due to a rapid decline in population. The bird is dependent on one food during it’s northward migration: horseshoe crab eggs. Overfishing of the crabs has led a dramatic the decline of both knots and crabs. This bird was captured as part of a banding study by the Delaware Bay Shorebird Project.
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- ave
- Banding
- bird
- calidris
- Calidris canutus ssp. rufa
- candidate species
- canutus
- canutus ssp. rufa
- captivity
- Close-up
- Delaware Bay project
- Delaware Bay Shorebird Project
- detail
- Feet
- One
- Photo Ark
- red knot
- red knot bird
- studio shot
- Study
- white background
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