Thirteen Spoon-billed Sandpipers have arrived in England after spending sixty days in quarantine at Moscow Zoo. The birds were captured on their breeding grounds in Siberia and the hope is that they can be used to start a captive breeding program in an attempt to bring the species back from the brink. Here’s hoping it goes well!
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Go Spoonies, go! Grow up quickly and make more Spoonies, we want many more!!
It’s good to have a backup plan, but now we need to redouble our efforts to ensure that the remaining wild birds have enough habitat to survive, because otherwise there would be nowhere to reintroduce the captive-bred birds.
I read the headline and imagined that they had turned up as vagrants! Can you imagine the pandemonium?
@Duncan: That raises the question – Is it ok to trample other birders for a look at a spoonie?
@Corey: a definite YES!