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Sandpiper Species Heading Towards Extinction

Critter News

Spoon-billed Sandpipers nest only in the far north-east of Russia. both 2009 and 2010, the team located around 200 Spoon-billed Sandpipers-the majority of the world population-wintering in Myanmar, most of them in the Bay of Martaban where local people target wading birds for food. Tags: birds hunting endangered species.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye. Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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