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Hugh Simmons is President of Chesapeake Audubon, a chapter of the National Audubon Society in Maryland. He is also a nature photographer and member of the community at NatureScapes.net.

The Red Knot: On the Brink of Extinction
by Hugh Simmons | December 1, 2005

Red knot © Heather ForcierThe Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) is on a fast track to extinction.

For decades, photographers, bird watchers and nature enthusiasts have gone to the shores of the Delaware Bay to view and record two of nature’s great spectacles. Hundreds of thousands of Horseshoe Crabs, one of the ol...

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