Great Knot © Peter Fuller

Medium large. Medium long very slightly decurved bill, short legs. Wings project beyond tail tip while standing. Bill slightly longer than head. Sexes alike. Adults: Breeding: Back, scapulars, blackish, edged white with a few scattered chestnut feathers. Whole of head and neck, finely streaked black and white. Eye, dark brown. Rump, mottled white and dark brow, but appearing white at a distance. Coverts, grey with dark shafts, tipped white, greater and primary coverts broadly tipped white forming a narrow but conspicuous white wing bar. Flight feathers, blackish. Throat, white and finely streaked with black. Breast, flanks, upper belly, undertail coverts, white with large black spots, which are concentrated on the breast forming a dark breast band. Center of belly, white. Underwing, mostly white. Bill, black, greenish at base. Legs, dark greenish-grey. Non-breeding: Upperparts, paler brownish-grey with less streaking on head, and no chestnut feathers. Primary coverts, darker than rest of wing. Underparts, lightly streaked on breast and flanks, with few dark spots on breast. Undertail coverts, white. Immatures: Browner above. Breast, brownish-buff streaked with dark brown.

Vagrant to Bahrain, Denmark, Djibouti, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Mauritius, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Seychelles, Spain, United Kingdom, USA, Yemen.

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