Horseshoe Crabs and Red Knot
Endangered horseshoe crabs provide eggs for endangered shorebirds.
Evolutionary storylines reaching back hundreds of millions of years are now in danger of ending with habitat destruction and ocean harvesting.
The red knot is a medium sized migratory shore bird, it flies vast distances from breeding grounds in the north to winter feeding grounds in the south. The feeding areas are restricted to highly productive wetlands and sand flats on intertidal zones, places that are increasingly taken into human use, for agriculture and coastal property development.
In the middle of the major migratory path from the Arctic tundra to the tip of South America the red knots make a vital stopover to feed on eggs of the horseshoe crabs. The extinction of horseshoe crabs through over-harvesting would likely cut off the migration path of the red knots. Other migration paths exist but all are under similar pressures.
20 x 20 cm, 1 Shina block, Water-washable oils (COBRA) on Nishinouchi washi with sumi sizing, edition 24 for Baren Exchange.
Part of the Double Dagger series where two printmakers illustrate environmental themes
Tom Kristensen 2024 ǂ
Red knot and Horseshoe crabs lino print
Hand carved and printed by Tom Kristensen in the style of Ono Tadashige onto black hand made Japanese washi paper. 20 x 20cm
A$100.00
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