Kiawah and Seabrook islands are a critical site for the rufa red knot (Calidris canutus rufa)

MM Pelton, SR Padula, J Garcia-Walther, M Andrews… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The rufa red knot (Calidris canutus rufa) is a migratory shorebird that performs one of the
longest known trans-hemispheric migrations of any bird species—from their breeding …

Global flyway evolution in red knots Calidris canutus and genetic evidence for a Nearctic refugium

JR Conklin, YI Verkuil, PF Battley, CJ Hassell… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Present‐day ecology and population structure are the legacies of past climate and habitat
perturbations, and this is particularly true for species that are widely distributed at high …