Photo: Banded red knot spotted near Arctic Bay

A shorebird, called a red knot, front, stops for a drink near Arctic Bay. This bird and other red knots fly from Argentina to the High Arctic and back every year. This little bird, which has been banded, could even be B95, called “the toughest four ounces of life” and a “super bird,” which inspired a book about his amazing annual migrations: “Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95” by Phillip Hoose. Since B95 was first captured and banded in 1995, the worldwide red knot population has collapsed by nearly 80 per cent. Towards the end of the 19th century, large numbers of the birds were shot for food as they migrated through North America. And, more recently, commercial harvesting of horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay, a stopover point during their spring migration, is thought to have affected their birds’ survival. (PHOTO BY CLARE KINES)