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Photo of Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Calidris pygmaea

The spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is a small wader which breeds in northeastern Russia and winters in Southeast Asia. This species is highly threatened, and it is said that since the 1970s the breeding population has decreased significantly. By 2000, the estimated breeding population of the species was 350–500.

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Photo credit: JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/)

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