Friends of the Red Knot

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A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US

Friends of the Red Knot is a club whose members are trying to save the Red Knot bird from extinction by getting it placed on the Endangered Species List and by advocating for a ban on the harvesting of Delaware Bay horseshoe crabs.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.

How Our Club Began

Photo courtesy of Byron Holston

WHAT IS A RED KNOT?

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.

Red Knot Facts

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST

You can sign up to receive occasional e-mails from Friends of the Red Knot. We will only send an e-mail when we have important news to report or when there is an opportunity for you to take action to help save the Red Knot. (We do not expect to send more than one e-mail per month, and most likely less.)

To sign up for our mailing list, click below to contact us and send us an e-mail asking to be put on the list. We will respond to confirm your request.

Click here to Contact Us

FOR THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT RED KNOTS AND FRIENDS OF THE RED KNOT, CLICK HERE

News and Events

FRIENDS OF THE RED KNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE DELAWARE BIRD-A-THON

Friends of the Red Knot participated in the Delaware Bird-A-Thon again this year. On May 9th, four FoRK youth identified 116 different bird species in 13 hours! Pledges are still coming in. We will publish our total amount of funds raised when we have that information.

The Delaware Bird-A-Thon raises funds to purchase land and preserve it as shorebird habitat. For more information about the Bird-A-Thon, go to http://www.dosbirds.org .

MANY THANKS FOR A GENEROUS DONATION

Friends of the Red Knot would like to thank Jean Gadziola for her very generous donation in honor of her friend, Mary Jo. Thanks to Jean and Mary Jo, Friends of the Red Knot will be able to fund our postcard and letter-writing campaigns. Mary Jo, who is described as “passionate about birds, nature and young children”, was impressed when she heard Mike Hudson speak about the work of Friends of the Red Knot. Jean decided that a donation to Friends of the Red Knot in honor of Mary Jo would be an appropriate way to recognize her friend, who has shown her great kindness and compassion. Friends of the Red Knot is extremely grateful to both of these women for their support of our efforts to save the Red Knot.

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 Ken Salazar, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, or Delaware Governor Jack Markell, click here.

Write Letters to Save The Red Knot

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:

Start Your Own Club