Species: Calidris canutus

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Nesting range in North America is in northwestern and northern Alaska, and Canadian arctic islands east to Ellesmere and south to southern Victoria and Southhampton islands, probably also on Adelaide Peninsula and Mansel Island; nesting also occurs in the northern Palearctic.<br><br>During the boreal winter, the range in the New World extends mainly from coastal regions of southern California, Gulf Coast and Massachusetts south to Tierra del Fuego; generally rare north of southern South America; major South American nonbreeding areas are Tierra del Fuego and Patagonian coast of Argentina, especially Bahia Lomas (Morrison and Ross 1989). New World red knots principally occupy two areas: about 100,000 birds along Atlantic coast of southern Argentina, about 10,000 along Florida Gulf Coast, with no evidence of interchange between the 2 groups (Harrington et al. 1988). In the Old World, most red knots are in southern Europe, southern Asia, Africa, and the Australasian region during the boreal winter.<br><br>Nonbreeders occasionally summer in the winter range. <br><br>Delaware Bay is the most important spring migration stopover in the eastern United States (Clark et al. 1993, Botton et al. 1994).