Knot really a Canberra species

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

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.