Spoon-billed sandpiper
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The spoon-billed sandpiper is a small wader which breeds on the coasts of the Bering Sea and winters in Southeast Asia. This species is highly threatened, and it is said that since the 1970s the breed
Eurynorhynchus pygmeus 2 Pak Thale
Eurynorhynchus pygmeus Ibis 1869P012AA
A "spoonie" on the breeding grounds in Chukotka, Siberia, June 2015.
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Red-necked stint
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The red-necked stint or rufous-necked stint is a small migratory wader that breeds in northeast Russia and spends the non-breeding season along the coastlines of Southeast Asia and Australasia.
Spoon-billed sandpiper
…Nilsson in 1821. It is now classified under the calidrid sandpipers. Within the genus Calidris the spoon-billed sandpiper is most closely related to the red-necked stint (Calidris ruficollis). The most distinctive feature of this species is its spatulate bill. The breeding adult bird has a red-brown head, neck and breast…
Red necked Stint Boat Harbour
Red necked Stint
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Summer plumage in Japan