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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Spoon-billed sandpipers started to arrive here for their winter migration. They live in Russia on the coast of Bering sea and migrate via China and Korea down to Southeast and South asia annually during winter. That's around 7000+ km traveling each way. There are approximately 400 mature adults left in the wild.

Once arrived, it is time to play where's Waldo as there is usually only one or two spoon-billed sandpipers among thousands of local sandpipers on the salt pan at each location.
All shot with Nikon Z9+800PF+TCx2.

Nov 24, 2023 at 06:42 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Well dang, those are new to me. Very nice shots of these unique little fellas in some great light.
Eric

Nov 24, 2023 at 07:57 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Well that's something new to me. What cool birds & great photos of them!

Conor

Nov 24, 2023 at 08:52 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

cool bird. Looks like a miniature cross between Roseate spoonbill and sandpiper!

Nov 24, 2023 at 09:15 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Amazing images of a bird that I was totally unaware even existed. Great find and shots.

Nov 24, 2023 at 09:19 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Great find, Suteetat! How'd you manage to stay with it?
Douglas

Nov 25, 2023 at 08:39 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Great capture of a rare bird!! I always look close at my sandpiper group pictures to see if I can spot a spoon bill. Nothing so far. I think their shallow mud flat habitats have diminished due to development and other reasons. Well done!

Nov 25, 2023 at 08:49 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Very unique bird, and great documentation.

Nov 25, 2023 at 08:54 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Erictator wrote:
Well dang, those are new to me. Very nice shots of these unique little fellas in some great light.
Eric

Thanks, Eric.
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conor95 wrote:
Well that's something new to me. What cool birds & great photos of them!

Conor
Thanks, conor.
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sathsy2017 wrote:
cool bird. Looks like a miniature cross between Roseate spoonbill and sandpiper!

Thanks.
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louie champan wrote:
Amazing images of a bird that I was totally unaware even existed. Great find and shots.

Thanks Louie.
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douter wrote:
Great find, Suteetat! How'd you manage to stay with it?
Douglas

Thanks Douglas. If the birds fly off, after 5-10 minutes, they will start to fly back to the same spot again so I just sit tight and wait. Luckily there were 6-7 of us that evening so we all tried to scan all the birds as they come back to look for that one single bird in the whole flock again

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JHut wrote:
Great capture of a rare bird!! I always look close at my sandpiper group pictures to see if I can spot a spoon bill. Nothing so far. I think their shallow mud flat habitats have diminished due to development and other reasons. Well done!

Thanks. Yes, sadly much of its natural habitat are gone. Even the salt paddies where they like to stay during their winter retreats are slowly disappearing. In Thailand, efforts have been made to buy up some of the salt paddies land where the highest number of spoon billed sandpipers come to spend their winter by a few conservation organizations and lease the land
back to the locals for free to continue salt farming only so the habitat is kept for these birds. Similar efforts are being made in Korea and China where the birds stop to rest on their way to SE Asia as far as I know. The breeding ground in Kamchatka peninsula is already a highly restricted area for conservation of the birds.
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kcook11 wrote:
Very unique bird, and great documentation.

Thanks.

Nov 25, 2023 at 07:22 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

1, 4, 5 and the last two are superb.

Morris

Nov 25, 2023 at 09:45 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Wow. Never heard of this bird. Congrats on capturing these images. And TFS.

Nov 27, 2023 at 05:29 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

what a wonderful bird. thanks for sharing, it's a first for me

Nov 27, 2023 at 07:48 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Terrific photographs of a bird I did not know existed.
Very interesting information, thanks for posting it.

Dave

Nov 27, 2023 at 08:30 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

morris wrote:
1, 4, 5 and the last two are superb.

Morris

Thanks, Morris

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DivineFocus wrote:
Wow. Never heard of this bird. Congrats on capturing these images. And TFS.

Thanks.
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kdacharya wrote:
what a wonderful bird. thanks for sharing, it's a first for me

Thanks.
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dclark wrote:
Terrific photographs of a bird I did not know existed.
Very interesting information, thanks for posting it.

Dave

Thanks, Dave.

Nov 28, 2023 at 07:01 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Really a cool bird, you did a great job of presenting these. Bruce

Nov 28, 2023 at 07:25 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

That is so cool. Lovely photos, I would love to see these guys.
Morrie

Nov 29, 2023 at 12:19 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

very interesting spices of the sandpiper, the name describes it well, spoon billed sandpiper. TFS

Nov 29, 2023 at 03:50 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · rare critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper

Amazing find mixed in with the thousands of others!

I did not know there existed such a bird, super cool looking bird and some great images of it. Appreciate your info and sharing of these images, thank you! Nice shooting @ 800x2 as well.
Karl

Nov 29, 2023 at 08:32 AM


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