Kullin ja ko kawai kulli (Calidris canutus) tsuntsu ne mai matsakaicin girma wanda ke kiwo a tundra da kuma Arctic Cordillera a arewa mai nisa na Kanada, Turai, da Rasha. Babban memba ne na Sandpipers Calidris, na biyu kawai ga babban kulli.[1] Ana gane sassan yanki guda shida.

Red knot
Conservation status

Near Threatened (en) Fassara  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
ClassAves
OrderCharadriiformes (en) Charadriiformes
DangiScolopacidae (en) Scolopacidae
GenusCalidris (en) Calidris
jinsi Calidris canutus
Linnaeus, 1758
Geographic distribution
General information
Nauyi 19.3 g, 126 g da 148 g
Faɗi 0.5 m

Abincinsu ya bambanta bisa ga kakar; arthropods da larvae sune abubuwan abinci da aka fi so a wuraren kiwo, yayin da ake cinye molluscs masu wuya iri-iri a wasu wuraren ciyarwa a wasu lokuta. Masoyan Arewacin Amurka suna ƙaura zuwa yankunan bakin teku a Turai da Kudancin Amurka, yayin da yawan Eurasia damina a Afirka, Papua New Guinea, Australia, da New Zealand. Wannan nau'in yana haifar da manyan garken tumaki lokacin da ba kiwo ba.

Taxonomy, tsare-tsare, da juyin halitta

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Carl Linnaeus ne ya fara bayyana kullin ja a cikin alamarsa ta 1758 bugu na 10 na System Naturae a matsayin Tringa canutus.[2] Wata ka'ida ita ce ta samo sunanta da nau'in nau'in nau'in ta daga King Cnut; sunan zai yi nuni ne ga neman kulli tare da layin tide da labarin Cnut da tide.[3] Da alama babu wani tushe na tarihi game da wannan ilimin.[4] Wani ilimin asalin kuma shine sunan onomatopoeic, bisa la’akarin gunaguni na tsuntsu.[5]

Manazarta

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  1. Marchant, John; Hayman, Peter; Prater, Tony (1986). Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 363–364. ISBN 0-395-37903-2.
  2. Linnaeus, Carl (1758). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata (in Latin). Holmiae. (Laurentii Salvii). p. 149. T. roftro laevi, pedibus cinerascentibus, remigibus primoribus ferratis.
  3. Holloway, Joel Ellis (2003). Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. p. 50. ISBN 0-88192-600-0.
  4. "Knot". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  5. Higgins, Peter J.; Davies, S.J.J.F., eds. (1996). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds Vol. 3: Snipe to Pigeons. Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. pp. 224–232. ISBN 0-19-553070-5.