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Spoon-billed sandpipers threatened by trapping in China
The spoon-billed sandpiper(кулик) is one of the world's rarest birds.
Recent sightings of the bird at several new sites along the coast of southern China indicate the species is more widespread(раскинувшийся) than thought.
But the study also found evidence of large-scale shorebird trapping using "mist nets" in some of these key areas.
Last month four spoon-billed sandpipers were sighted at new wintering grounds in Fucheng, south-west Guangdong Province: the latest evidence that the bird is migrating to more widespread areas in China than previously(ранее) known. Members of the Hong Kong Bird Watching Society discovered a group of the critically endangered birds in partially drained fishponds in Fucheng.
During winter, spoon-billed sandpipers (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) migrate from their breeding grounds in northeastern Russia and travel to South, South East and East Asia.
The sparrow-sized(размер воробья) wading bird is the only species to be born with its distinctive spoon-shaped bill, which it uses to peck and probe in mud to find food.
The latest sightings, along with reports of the bird at several other sites in southern China in recent years, "[indicate] that this is a more important wintering area for the species than was previously known", according to BirdLife International.
Do you know such birds? Do you sometime saw these birds? what your opinion on this article? Do we have to help birds to survive?
I didn't hear about this bird. to learn new it is very interesting and fascinating.
Of couse i never heard about these birds. But it is very useful for me to learn about the world of animals more. Maybe... if i have free time i visit different intersting places where i can see unusual animals. I am sure that we don't know much information about our nature. In ny opinion, we should know it more. I undertant that some people aren't intereted in it. But, nevertheless, we should take care of the nature and protest it. It depends on only us!!!
