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Friends of the Red Knot is a club whose members are working to save
the Red Knot bird from extinction. The club was formed when a few students at the GreenMount School in Baltimore, MD
decided to get together and look for ways to help the Red Knot bird. To learn more about the club and how it was formed, click
here.
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The Red Knot is a small, plump, reddish shorebird. Every year, the Red Knot rufa subspecies migrates from
Tierra del Fuego in Chile and Argentina to the Arctic region of Canada to breed. To learn more about the Red Knot and why
it needs to be saved, click here.
Follow the Activities of the Shorebird Project Team
You saw them on the PBS series, Nature, in the episode, Crash: A Tale of Two Species.
Now you can follow the progress of the biologists who study Red Knots. The Shorebird Project Team,
led by Dr. Larry Niles and Dr. Amanda Dey, follows Red Knots from Tierra del Fuego to Delaware Bay and the Arctic.
Their blog postings are a great way to keep up with current information on Red Knots and other shorebirds and to learn
how scientists conduct field studies. There are great photos too! Don't miss this blog!
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HELP THE RED KNOT BY SUPPORTING THE
DELAWARE BIRD-A-THON
The 2nd Annual Delaware Bird-A-Thon will be held throughout the state of Delaware from May 3 - 11, 2008.
Most of the money raised will be used to purchase land in Delaware that provides vital migratory habitiat for the Red Knot
and other shorebirds. You can find out how to participate at http://www.dosbirds.org . If you can't participate directly, you can make on online donation at the above website, or sponsor
the Friends of the Red Knot Bird-A-Thon team. If you would like to sponsor our team, send us an
e-mail for more information. Contact Us
HELP US SAVE THE RED KNOT!!
If you want to help save the Red Knot from extinction, there are things you can do to help.
WRITE LETTERS
You can write letters to people in the Government who are in a position to help the Red Knot. To write to
Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, your U.S. Senators, or Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, click here.
START YOUR OWN CLUB
You and your friends can start your own club to help the Red Knot (or another species that needs help).
Click here to find out how:
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