A Knot on Its Arctic Nest (IMAGE)

NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

A Knot on Its Arctic Nest — Caption

Red knots used to incubate their eggs in the Arctic snow in order to optimally time the hatch date of their chicks relative to the insect food peak. Nowadays, red knots have a hard time keeping pace with the rapidly advancing onset of Arctic summer

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© Jan van de Kam

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