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The red knot epitomizes a shorebird’s need for stopovers and the rigors of a long migration. Knots breed in the Canadian Arctic and fly all the way to Tierra Del Fuego in South America to over-winter. On their return, they stopover in Argentina, Brazil and finally the Delaware Bay. They fly 20,000 miles every year. Their stopovers fuel their migration as it does for most shorebirds. Destroying or degrading a stopover would be like removing the parts from a car engine, the migration engine would cease to function.
