Endangered Species Day – 21 May, 2010
Written by Gyorgy Szimuly/WorldWaders The Endangered Species Day could not be more actual than today when hundreds of threatened and endangered animals are fading away as an effect of the oil spill in...
View ArticleSaving the Sociable Lapwing
Posted by RSPB BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme interview with Species Guardians of the Sociable Lapwing – Dr Rob Sheldon (RSPB, BirdLife in the UK), and Andreas Pittl (Swarovski Optik). Post...
View ArticleSearching for Sociable Lapwing with Nature Iraq’s Omar Fadil
Written by Omar Fadil/Nature Iraq Since the invasion of 2003, many people have been struggling to survive in the chaos and bloodshed in Iraq . Even now the country’s far from safe. However, over the...
View ArticleA footage of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper display call in full breeding plumage...
Written by Gyorgy Szimuly A new and spectacular video footage is uploaded to YouTube showing a male Spoon-billed Sandpiper in full breeding plumage in its territory while continuously calling for a...
View ArticleOversummering Spoon-billed Sandpiper discovered in Thailand
Written by Bird Conservation Society of Thailand On July 19, 2010, a shorebird survey team observed a first-summer individual of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus pygmeus...
View ArticleSociable Lapwing Tracking – RSPB Video
Written by RSPB Watch this extraordinary video of Dr. Rob Sheldon (RSPB) and Maxim Koshkin (ACBK) fitting one of the new satellite tracking devices to Alia on the breeding grounds, in Central...
View ArticleSpoony needs your vote!
Written by BirdLife International Ed: More detail on the Disney voting. Spoon-billed Sandpiper chick. © John O'Sullivan, RSPB BirdLife’s work to save two key resting and feeding sites in China, used...
View ArticleNew eco-tourism initiative benefits Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation
Written by BirdLife International Community One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been...
View ArticleTalking-Naturally: Spoon-billed Sandpiper podcast
Written by BirdLife Community One of the most challenging issues faced by conservationists working to save the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper from extinction has been establishing...
View ArticleEmergency mission to save remarkable bird from extinction
Written by WWT An international team of conservationists has flown out to the Russian Far East on an emergency mission to help save one of the world’s rarest birds from extinction. The Spoon-billed...
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