Spoonbill Sandpiper knows nothing about Lion ~!~

[haikuman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13627796

3 June 2011
Bid to save sandpiper at risk of extinction in Russia
By Matt Walker
Editor, BBC Nature

Conservationists have embarked on a mission to save one of the world's rarest birds, the spoon-billed sandpiper, from extinction.

Fewer than 200 pairs of spoon-billed sandpipers were thought to exist in 2009, and since then, the population has thought to have declined by a quarter each year.

So a specialist team of bird experts are flying to the sandpiper's home in northeast Russia to collect and incubate eggs and set up a captive breeding population.

[Racer X]

that's a cute chick!

[Jimmypoo]

What's killing it off?

[haikuman]

Jimmypoo wrote:
What's killing it off?

errr read the article gumby

The bird divides its time between northeast Russia and the Bay of Bay of Martaban, Myanmar (Burma) and the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.

Travelling between, they migrate over 8,000km (4,970 miles) on a journey that may pass through Japan, North Korea, the Republic of Korea, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh and India.

Unsustainable levels of subsistence hunting, particularly within the wintering areas in Myanmar and Bangladesh, are thought to be driving the species's decline.

Degradation and reclamation of the inter-tidal mudflats along many countries in Asia is exacerbating the problem.

[Jimmypoo]

Degradation and reclamation of the inter-tidal mudflats - That will get you every time!

[hal]

that's a cool bird - they should bring to this side of the atlantic so I can take pics of it

[haikuman]

I bet you could find some mudflats around the river and the coast. Maybe you should write to them and see if you could host a few birds Hal .

Rudie