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Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Mon, 10/01/2011 - 10:27

Spoon-billed Sandpiper is one of the world's strangest-looking birds and certainly the weirdest wader. It is a small bird with, as its name suggests, a spoon-shaped bill. The species is listed as Critically Endangered by BirdLife International because it has an extremely small population, which is getting smaller This means that it is at real risk from extinction in the next few years.


Video of Spoon-billed Sandpiper on breeding grounds

Wed, 04/08/2010 - 15:16

Brilliant footage of a brilliant bird. This has got to be worth saving, hasn't it?