A high proportion of the world population of the spoon-billed sandpiper occurs at Tiaozini, China, during the post-breeding Moult

• Main Authors: Chang, Q, Anderson, GQA, Brides, K, Clark, JA, Clark, NA, Hearn, R, Leung, K, Melville, DS, Weston, E, Weston, J, Green, RE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: International Wader Study Group 2019
• Subjects: 30 Agricultural; Veterinary and Food Sciences; 31 Biological Sciences; 3103 Ecology; Arctic; Petersen; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290073; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.37296

The Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea breeds in arctic and subarctic Russia and migrates to winter on coastal mudflats in south-east Asia. Its world population is probably about 700 individuals. We report Lincoln-Petersen closed-population estimates of the number of Spoon...