Red knots are shown during spring migration on Ocracoke Island. Photo: Peter Vankevich
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Only about the size of an American robin and usually weighing under 5 ounces, it completes a marathon migratory flight.
Most of these knots, the rufa subspecies, winter in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America.
From there, their 9,000-plus-mile route to their nesting area in the middle- and high-Arctic areas of northern Canada is one of the longest migration routes for a bird. Although some red knots winter in the United States with some most years on Ocracoke Florida has the highest numbers.
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