[Animals] Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Wiki

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The spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) is a small wader which breeds on the coasts of the Bering Sea and winters in Southeast Asia. This species is highly threatened, and it is said that since the 1970s the breeding po[CENSORED]tion has decreased significantly. By 2000, the estimated breeding po[CENSORED]tion of the species was 350–500.

Taxonomy
Platalea pygmea was the scientific name proposed by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

It was moved to Eurynorhynchus by Sven Nilsson in 1821.

It is now classified under the calidrid sandpipers.

Description
The most distinctive feature of this species is its spatulate bill. The breeding adult bird has a red-brown head, neck and breast with dark brown streaks, blackish upperparts with buff and pale rufous fringing. Non-breeding adults lack the reddish colouration, but have pale brownish-grey upperparts with whitish fringing to the wing-coverts. The underparts are white, and the legs are black. It is 14–16 cm (5.5–6.3 in) long.

 

 

Spoon-billed sandpiper - Wikipedia