A conservation group has found 84 spoon-billed sandpipers in a coastal stretch of Myanmar. The discovery in early February comes only months after Russian researchers reported that the numbers of these little birds is declining rapidly.
The World Conservation Union lists the bird as endangered with only 200 to 300 pairs left in the wild. The Spoon-billed Sandpiper (also Spoonbill Sandpiper), Eurynorhynchus pygmeus, is a small wader.
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