Critter News
AUGUST 22, 2010
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper, one of the world's most threatened birds, is rapidly heading towards extinction because young birds are being targeted for human consumption. Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2016
annually) was detected in the Baltic Sea, with counts in 2007-2009 putting the wintering population at c. Cases of illegal shooting are still reported (…in 2009 in the Danube Delta) and hunting is considered one of the main threats for the east Asian population. Since surveys in 1992-1993, an apparent decline of c.
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