One of the world’s rarest birds is also the squee-est
Introducing the spoon-billed sandpiper:
(c) Roland Digby/WWT/PA Wire, originally published here.
Spoon-billed sandpipers are migratory wader birds that breed in the sub-Arctic and winter in southeast Asia. Best estimates point to less than 100 breeding pairs left in the wild due to a decrease of breeding habitat in the Arctic and increase of bird-hunters in Asia. Don’t worry, this is a story about #OceanOptimism…