A conversation with Chris Collins, a highly-experienced guide with Heritage Expeditions, the New Zealand-based ecotourism company that became a BirdLife Species Champion for the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper in August last year. Chris has just returned from Chukotka, north-eastern Russia, as part of a large team of people who are involved in a remarkable project to discover new breeding populations of this iconic and rapidly declining shorebird.
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick (Martin McGill)
The first Spoon-billed Sandpiper to hatch in captivity in the world was always going to be a spectacular sight, but when a BirdLife Species Champion Heritage Expeditions boat docked in Anadyr, Russia, not one, not two, but an incredible 17 tiny, hatched Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks emerged. Continue reading
Spoon-billed Sandpiper (James Gilroy)
Heritage Expeditions – a BirdLife Species Champion supporting Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation through the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme – struck gold this week when they, and the passengers they have taken to the Russian Far East, helped discover a previously unknown breeding population of these rapidly declining waders. Continue reading
James Gilroy; Spoon-billed Sandpiper in breeding plumage
An international team of conservationists is on an emergency mission to help save one of the world’s rarest birds from extinction. Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus is a remarkable bird, but its shocking drop in numbers indicates likely extinction within a decade if urgent action is not taken. Continue reading
In this podcast Charlie Moores from www.talking-naturally.co.uk talks with Jim Lawrence, Manager of BirdLife International’s Preventing Extinctions Programme, Chris Collins, a highly-experienced Leader with Heritage Expeditions, and Dr Zockler about Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation. Continue reading
Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation has received a vital boost from BirdLife Species Champion and award-winning expedition travel company Heritage Expeditions. Continue reading
Photos confirming the first record of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper oversummering in its wintering grounds in Thailand has been made.
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‘Saving Spoony’s Chinese Wetlands’, BirdLife’s project to save two key resting and feeding sites used by Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers in China, has been selected to receive a $100,000 grant by The Walt Disney Company, through Disney’s Friends for Change.
John O'Sullivan/RSPB; Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick
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