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Knot really a Canberra species

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Subject: Knot really a Canberra species
From: "Geoffrey Dabb" <>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:31:33 +1100

It is now just on 11 years since the only record of a Red Knot in the ACT, at the FSP.  So far as I know, there has never been a report of a Great Knot here.  This does not mean people should stop looking.  Now would be a good time.  As the books say, these species often occur with godwits.  A possible reason for the scarcity of knots is that we get so few godwits here.  Incidentally, the original – and perhaps preferable – pronunciation of the name was “K’NOT ”, from the voice.

 

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