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.
- Black NeedlerushJuncus roemerianus
- Common WaxmyrtleMorella cerifera
- Saltmeadow CordgrassSpartina patens
- Sea OatsUniola paniculata
- Groundsel-treeBaccharis halimifolia
- Seashore SaltgrassDistichlis spicata
- Yaupon HollyIlex vomitoria
- Dune Marsh-elderIva imbricata
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Saltmarsh CordgrassSpartina alterniflora
- Sand Live OakQuercus geminata
- Live OakQuercus virginiana
- Serenoa repensSerenoa repens
- Sea OxeyeBorrichia frutescens
- Tropical WaxweedCuphea aspera
- Northern Seaside SpurgeEuphorbia polygonifolia
- SwitchgrassPanicum virgatum
- Violet ButterwortPinguicula ionantha
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Tough BumeliaSideroxylon tenax
- Seashore DropseedSporobolus virginicus
- Archidium minusArchidium minus
- Batis maritimaBatis maritima
Wildlife 196
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Florida. Not sighting records.
- Common Ground-doveColumbina passerina
- Common MynaAcridotheres tristis
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- Eurasian Collared-doveStreptopelia decaocto
- Florida Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia floridana
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Loggerhead ShrikeLanius ludovicianus
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Northern FlickerColaptes auratus
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern WaterthrushSeiurus noveboracensis
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Pine SiskinCarduelis pinus
- Prairie WarblerDendroica discolor
- Purple FinchCarpodacus purpureus
- Rock PigeonColumba livia
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)







































