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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Saemangeum
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Saemangeum is an estuarine tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea in South Korea. It was dammed by the government of South Korea's Saemangeum Seawall Project, completed in 2006, after a long fight
Spoon-billed sandpiper
…its survival are habitat loss on its breeding grounds and loss of tidal flats through its migratory and wintering range. The important staging area at Saemangeum, South Korea, has already been partially reclaimed, and the remaining wetlands are under serious threat of reclamation in the near future. Long-term…
A view of the Saemangeum Seawall
Sinsi sluice gate of Saemangeum Seawall
Before reclamation. Taken in March 1989