First indications of a sharp population decline in the globally threatened Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus is classed as globally Vulnerable, based on the only available population estimate, made in 1977, of 2,000–2,800 pairs. Surveys for breeding Spoon-billed Sandpipers were carried out in summer 2000 on the Anadyr estuary coast, the Chukotka autonomous regi...
Published in: | Bird Conservation International |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2002
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270902002010 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0959270902002010 |