First indications of a sharp population decline in the globally threatened Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus

• Published in: Bird Conservation International
• Main Authors: Tomkovich, P. S., Syroechkovski, Jr., E. E., Lappo, E. G., Zöckler, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2002
• Subjects: Nature and Landscape Conservation; Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology; Anadyr; Anadyr’; Anadyr'; Chukotka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270902002010; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0959270902002010

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...