(PBCFI) was able to take photographs of the
Spoon-billed sandpiper or Spoonbill sandpiper, known to science as Calidrispygmaea, at the Negros Occidental Coastal Wetlands Conservation Area (NOCWCA).
World Migratory Bird Day cites seven flagship species: barn swallow, black-tailed godwit, Amur falcon, garganey, yellow-breasted bunting, red knot, and
spoon-billed sandpiper. Why are you focusing on these seven types of bird this year?
One of my "must see" birds is the
Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's rarest birds.
A helper at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust holds a young
spoon-billed sandpiper. One of the rarest birds in the world, it has had its numbers boosted by a scheme to hand-rear chicks to fledging, wildlife experts said.
The popular ecologist was at the Wildlife and Wetlands Trust's Washington Wetland Centre to talk about a campaign to preserve the
spoon-billed sandpiper.
Mike is visiting all nine wetlands centres in England in a challenge to raise money for a
spoon-billed sandpiper feeding programme.
This supposedly saves the CO2 that you have blown flying half way around the world for a
spoon-billed sandpiper.
Rare species which are unlikely to survive include the Ethiopian Gelada baboon, Australia's mountain pygmy opossum, the Mexican monarch butterfly and the Arctic
spoon-billed sandpiper.
They include the rare Gelada baboon in Ethiopia, the mountain pygmy possum of Australia, the monarch butterfly from Mexico and the
spoon-billed sandpiper in Russia's Arctic Far East.
It would be a serious blow to geese and sandpipers, especially the
spoon-billed sandpiper and the Mikado goose, the researchers said.