Spoon-billed Sandpiper :: Calidris pygmaea
Bad at Goodbyes :: Episode 063
On today’s show we learn about the Spoon-billed Sandpiper, a critically endangered migratory avian, a bird native to breeding ground in far northeastern Russia in the Chukotka autonomous district, that migrates to summer in Southeast Asia, in Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar and China.
- (00:05) Intro
- (02:05) Species Information
- (25:24) Citations
- (27:20) Music
- (35:19) Pledge
For more information about Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation see the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at https://wwt.org.uk/.
Research for today’s show was compiled from:
- Animal Diversity Web at the University of Michigan. Labuda, C. 2023. "Eurynorhynchus pygmeus". https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Eurynorhynchus_pygmeus/
- Bird Conservation International v.20, no. 2 (2010): 95–111. Zöckler, Christoph, Evgeny E. Syroechkovskiy, And Philip W. Atkinson. “Rapid and Continued Population Decline in the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Eurynorhynchus Pygmeus Indicates Imminent Extinction Unless Conservation Action Is Taken.” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270910000316
- Bird Conservation International v.26, no. 4 (2016): 476–89. Zöckler, Christoph, Alison E. Beresford, Gillian Bunting, Sayam U. Chowdhury, Nigel A. Clark, Vivian Wing Kan Fu, Tony Htin Hla, et al. “The Winter Distribution of the Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Calidris Pygmaeus.” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270915000295
- Bird Conservation International v.28, no. 2 (2018): 251–62. Chowdhury, Sayam U., Mohammad Foysal, M Abdullah Abu Diyan, And Sakib Ahmed. “Discovery of an Important Wintering Site of the Critically Endangered Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Calidris Pygmaea in the Meghna Estuary, Bangladesh.” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270917000247
- Birds of the World. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. van Gils, J., P. Wiersma, C. J. Sharpe, and G. M. Kirwan (2020). Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). – https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.spbsan1.01
- Diversity v. 15, no. 4: 584. Loktionov, Egor Y., Roland A. Digby, Nickolay N. Yakushev, Ivan A. Shepelev, Jodie P. Clements, Pavel S. Tomkovich, Nigel S. Jarrett, Nigel A. Clark, Rhys E. Green, Elena G. Lappo, and et al. 2023. "Evaluating the Impact of Headstarting on the Critically Endangered Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea". – https://doi.org/10.3390/d15040584
- Frontiers in Marine Science. v. 9 (2022). Lu Xiuyuan, Yang Hongyan, Piersma Theunis, Sun Lili, Chen Qing, Jia Yifei, Lei Guangchun, Cheng Li, Rao Xinpeng. ”Food resources for Spoon-billed Sandpipers (Calidris pygmaea) in the mudflats of Leizhou Bay, southern China”. – https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1005327
- Global Ecology and Conservation Volume 35, 2022, e02077. Pyae Phyo Aung, Graeme M. Buchanan, Philip D. Round, Christoph Zöckler, Chris Kelly, Naruemon Tantipisanuh, George A. Gale. “Foraging microhabitat selection of Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the Upper Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar.” – https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02077
- IUCN – https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22693452/154738156
- Oryx 52, no. 1 (2018): 137–46. Clark, Nigel A., Guy Q. A. Anderson, Jing Li, Evgeny E. Syroechkovskiy, Pavel S. Tomkovich, Christoph Zöckler, Rebecca Lee, and Rhys E. Green. “First Formal Estimate of the World Population of the Critically Endangered Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Calidris Pygmaea.” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605316000806
- Oryx 54, no. 1 (2020): 23–29. Aung, Pyae-Phyo, Saw Moses, Nigel A. Clark, Guy Q.A. Anderson, Geoff M. Hilton, Graeme M. Buchanan, Christoph Zöckler, and Rhys E. Green. “Recent Changes in the Number of Spoon-Billed Sandpipers Calidris Pygmaea Wintering on the Upper Gulf of Mottama in Myanmar.” – https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605318000698
- Sound Recordings. Xeno-Canto. Jens Kirkeby, XC486596 – http://xeno-canto.org/486596
- Wader Study. v. 124. 99-104. Kelly, Chris & Zöckler, Christoph & Scampion, Baz & Syroechkovskiy, Evgeny. (2017). Hammer, filter or microphone: How does the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Calidris pygmaea use its bill to feed?. – http://dx.doi.org/10.18194/ws.00076
- Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust – https://www.wwt.org.uk/our-work/projects/spoon-billed-sandpipers
- Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon-billed_sandpiper
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