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The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, from Chukotka to the Yellow Sea
The longest single thread on this site. A Critically Endangered shorebird that breeds in the Russian Far East and winters in South-East Asia, followed here through the survey expeditions, the conservation breeding programme at Slimbridge, and the loss of the staging grounds it depends on in between.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- BirdLife and the search for breeding Spoon-billed Sandpipers
A 2011 episode on the expedition to northern Russia looking for undiscovered breeding pairs of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
- Chris Collins on returning from Chukotka
A 2011 conversation recorded a day after the Heritage Expeditions guide returned from the Spoon-billed Sandpiper fieldwork in north-eastern Russia.
- Christoph Zöckler on the Rudong tidal flats
A survey week at Rudong recorded at least 106 Spoon-billed Sandpipers, possibly a third of the world population, on mudflats threatened with reclamation.
- Christoph Zöckler on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Recovery Group
A 2011 interview with the coordinator of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Species Recovery Group, recorded before the survey expedition to eastern Russia.
- Christoph Zöckler: an update from Slimbridge
Recorded a week after the first Spoon-billed Sandpipers reached Slimbridge, on the breeding programme, hunting on the wintering grounds, and reclamation.
- Debbie Pain on the Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeding programme
A 2011 conversation with Dr Debbie Pain of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust on the breeding programme set up as a last resort for the Spoon-billed Sandpiper.
- The Spoon-billed Sandpiper on the 100 most threatened list
A note on the species' inclusion among the world's hundred most threatened, and on what such lists are and are not useful for.
- The Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Slimbridge
Birds taken as eggs in Arctic Russia, reared and flown to Gloucestershire, shown for the first time, and what a captive population that size can do.