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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Rare Sandpipers Found in Myanmar


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Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar (Burma), BirdLife International announced Thursday, February 14, 2008.

The World Conservation Union lists the bird as endangered with only 200 to 300 pairs left in the wild.

"We haven't saved the species," cautioned Adrian Long, BirdLife's head of communications. "Finding 80 is fantastic, but if we found 800, we would be really, really happy."

Photograph by Peter Ericsson/BirdLife International