Spoon-billed Sandpiper
Calidris pygmaea
The spoon-billed sandpiper 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. By 2000, the estimated breeding population of the species was 350–500.
- Scientific name
- Calidris pygmaea
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies
- IUCN status
- CR