Staffan Widstrand / Spoon billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) standing in shallow water, Siberia, Russia, critically endangered

Gerrit Vyn / Shellfish harvesters on the mudflats at Rudong, China. Besides being important to human livelihoods these mudflats are the last remaining place in the Yellow Sea where the critically endangered Spoon-...

Gerrit Vyn / Chinese bird photographers on the Rudong mudlfats in pursuit of critically endangered species Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) There is a general lack of knowledge about proper ethics around...

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea}, in winter plumage stretching wing, Samut Sakhon, Thailand

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea}, winter plumage in water, Samut Sakhon, Thailand

Staffan Widstrand / Spoon billed sandpiper {Calidris pygmaea} Siberia Russia

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) catching insect prey, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project under...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) feeding, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with prey in beak, portrait, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust Slimbridge, UK. This individual is one of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertak...

Joel Sartore / Photo Ark / Spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) with insect prey in beak, portrait. One of the remaining birds from a captive rearing project undertaken as part of wider work to save this species, Wildfowl...