Bird
Red Knot
Calidris canutus
A winter visitor to Florida, found in 60 of 67 counties and 5 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 60 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 60 of 67 counties
- Habitats
- 5
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Florida 5
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.
Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)
Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.
Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.
Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.
Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.
Other habitats in its models (8)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Seasons in Florida
- Winter: does not nest here, in 60 of 67 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 137
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Florida. Shared habitat, not food.
- Coastal SearocketCakile lanceolata
- Shoreline SedgeCarex hyalinolepis
- Woody GoldenrodChrysoma pauciflosculosa
- Southern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia bombensis
- Fuirena scirpoideaFuirena scirpoidea
- CamphorweedHeterotheca subaxillaris
- Bigleaf Marsh-elderIva frutescens
- Seashore MallowKosteletzkya pentacarpos
- PondberryLindera melissifolia
- Muhlenbergia capillaris var. filipesMuhlenbergia capillaris var. filipes
- Burrowing Four-o'clockOkenia hypogaea
- KnotgrassPaspalum distichum
- Seashore CrowngrassPaspalum vaginatum
- Tall JointweedPolygonum pinicola
- Southern BeaksedgeRhynchospora microcarpa
- Cabbage PalmettoSabal palmetto
- Spartina bakeriSpartina bakeri
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- Virginia Chain-fernWoodwardia virginica
- Southern Wild-riceZizaniopsis miliacea
- Hazel AlderAlnus serrulata
- Black MangroveAvicennia germinans
- Coastal Water-hyssopBacopa monnieri
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
Wildlife 196
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American WigeonAnas americana
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Fulvous Whistling-duckDendrocygna bicolor
- GadwallAnas strepera
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Red Knot Brackish or salt water only
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)





































