Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Spoon-billed Sandpiper expedition video

Amazing work!

2 comments:

lovelanguagetest said...

The spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is a small wader which breeds on the coasts of the Bering Sea and winters in Southeast Asia.
Conservation. This bird is critically endangered, with a current population of fewer than 2500probably fewer than 1000 – mature individuals.Most remaining Spoon-billed Sandpipers winter in love language test coastal Myanmar and Bangladesh, though some birds are still found in coastal southern China, Thailand and Vietnam. Spoon-billed sandpipers are unique birds with bills in the shape of spoons. They are a Critically Endangered species, facing a number of threats in their breeding and overwintering areas, as well as along their migration routes

spacebar clicker said...

The result of the expedition can be viewed on many websites: Spoon-billed Sandpipers in an aviary in Britain. Now a video of the expedition The Spoon-billed spacebar clicker Sandpiper is one of the world's Critically Endangered species, facing immanent extinction due to habitat loss, a low fledging success rate, The pair belong to the only captive flock of spoon-billed sandpipers in the world, established at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust