Birds 15 - Great Knot

A Great Knot was detected at Chavakkad beach near Guruvayur, Kerala It bore a metallic tag on its left leg, just like an anklet of a dancer. A closer look at the tag revealed, not surprisingly a Russian connection It was the month of November, when the tundra freezes and so does Kamchatka. For the avian was tagged at Kamchatka peninsula in Far East Russian Arctic Nine thousand kilometres it has traveled to reach this shore on the Arabian Sea. Great Knot is a shore-bird Medium sized and stocky wader that live in coastal mudflats. a sharp whistle "kweet-kweet" and we know it's Calidris tenuirostris binomial name of the great knot. The grey waterside birds Aristotle called ‘Kalidris' and tenuirostris means "slender bill".