Red knot birds travel 9,000 miles each year from South America to breed in the Arctic. The shore birds stop at the Delaware Bay to rest and refuel on horseshoe crab eggs. However, populations of the ...

LONG BRANCH - A decision made here earlier this month should continue to ensure that tiny shorebirds called red knots leave Delaware Bay with full bellies this spring. At its annual meeting, held this ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item ...

Red knots, a migrating bird species able to fly about 5,000 kilometers non-stop, are becoming smaller as temperatures warm in their Arctic breeding grounds, a study said Thursday. And these birds will ...