
Also known as Calidris pygmaea
species of bird
via IUCN
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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
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).