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The “Rufa” Red Knot is now protected under the Endangered Species Act

10,000 Birds

One of the two sub-species of Red Knot occurring in North America, the Rufa subspecies breeds in the Canadian Artic Region and migrates along the east or Atlantic coast of the United States. The other sub-species, Calidris canutus roselaari , migrates along the Pacific Coast and breeds in Alaska and the Wrangel Island in Russia.

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Manx Shearwaters

10,000 Birds

Each year 120,000 birds visit the island to breed from March through August in burrows that riddle the landscape. The long shifts before swapping duties reduce the number of times that the birds have to run the gauntlet of the gulls and increase their chances of succesfully raising the chick to the age of abandonment.