Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea)🐦🦜🕊️🎵🐤❤️🐤 ▶️ endangered ◀️

1⃣The 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 population has decreased significantly.

2⃣ By 2000, the estimated breeding population of the species was 350–500.The spoon-billed sandpiper's breeding habitat is sea coasts and adjacent hinterland on the Chukchi Peninsula and southwards along the isthmus of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It migrates down the Pacific

3⃣ coast through Japan, Korea and China, to its main wintering grounds in south and southeast Asia, where it has been recorded from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore.🐤

Also featured in John Player's cards.

So cute.