The Spoon-billed Sandpiper is one of the world's coolest birds, and unfortunately, it has become one of the rarest. There may be only 200-300 pairs left. They breed in a very limited area of tundra in northeastern Russia, and migrate to southeastern Asia to overwinter.
Habitat loss on all fronts, apparently - breeding and wintering grounds, and stopover sites - have plummeted this charismatic species to gravely imperiled status.
Check out this fabulous video, posted to YouTube, of a displaying male Spoon-billed Sandpiper on its tundra breeding grounds. The world would surely be a poorer place were we to lose these odd spoonbills.
3 comments:
OMG. This bird is on my bucket list. I will probably die without filling my bucket in regards to this bird. Just seeing this video made my heart sing. What a beauty or I should say how handsome.
Awesome bird Jim,, thanks for sharing this ,, never seen or heard of this one. Absolutely beautiful and unique.
What a very cool bird! Would be sad indeed to loose this one.
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