Red Knots, Porsanger Fjord, Northern Norway
Along the East-Atlantic flyway the Porsanger fjord in Northern Norway with its extensive mud flats provides an important spring staging area for knots (Calidris canutus islandica) on their way from their wintering areas in western Europe to their breeding sites in Northern Greenland and Northeast Canada.
Year: 2013
From album: The Red Knot and Long-Distance Migration
Photographer: Peter Prokosch