Bird
Red Knot
Calidris canutus
A winter visitor to Louisiana, found in 28 of 64 parishes and 3 habitats.
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 28 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- Winter
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- 28 of 64 parishes
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Louisiana 3
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.
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 (21)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Louisiana.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
Seasons in Louisiana
- Winter: does not nest here, in 28 of 64 parishes.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 42
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Louisiana. Shared habitat, not food.
- Seashore CrowngrassPaspalum vaginatum
- Starrush Whitetop SedgeRhynchospora colorata
- Spreading BeaksedgeRhynchospora divergens
- Small's BeaksedgeRhynchospora globularis var. pinetorum
- Southern BeaksedgeRhynchospora microcarpa
- Shortbeak BeaksedgeRhynchospora nitens
- Common Three Square BulrushSchoenoplectus pungens
- Slender Sea-purslaneSesuvium maritimum
- Shoreline Sea-purslaneSesuvium portulacastrum
- Giant BristlegrassSetaria magna
- Southern CattailTypha domingensis
- Carolina Yellow-eyed-grassXyris caroliniana
- Largeleaf PennywortHydrocotyle bonariensis
- Gulf SearocketCakile geniculata
- Madagascar PeriwinkleCatharanthus roseus
- Panicum amarum var. amarulumPanicum amarum var. amarulum
- MaidencanePanicum hemitomon
- Chinese Tallow-treeTriadica sebifera
Wildlife 171
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Louisiana. Not sighting records.
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- American CootFulica americana
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Bank SwallowRiparia riparia
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticorax
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Blue-winged TealAnas discors
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- CanvasbackAythya valisineria
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Common LoonGavia immer
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Eared GrebePodiceps nigricollis
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)



































