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Species
Critically Endangeredvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Calidris pygmaea
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- taxon common name
- 勺嘴鹬
- Commons category
- Calidris pygmaea
- sequenced genome URL
- www.ensembl.org/Calidris_pygmaea
- habitat
- mudflat
- taxon range
- Japan
- short name
- C. pygmaea
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Encyclopedic overview
A "spoonie" on the breeding grounds in Chukotka, Siberia, June 2015. The spoon-billed sandpiper (Calidris pygmaea) 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.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spoon-billed Sandpiper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.