Green Space: Red knots still using New Jersey as a stop-over


Red knots in New Jersey.
Photo credit: Philly.com



For those who have been following the plight of the rufa subspecies of red knots, there's good news. The birds have one of the planet's longest migrations, flying from their winter territory at the southern tip of South America to their breeding grounds in the Arctic.  Along the way north, they arrive at Delaware Bay every May, exhausted and depleted of reserves.  There, they depend on the lipid-rich eggs of the horseshoe crab to refuel. They have to do it quickly so they can get north, breed and get out before the snows begin again.

     

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    Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 1/4/2010 7:00 AM
    Categories: Birds
    Tags: delaware bay breeding grounds migration horseshoe crabs red knots
     

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