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2011-12-24 Spoon-billed Sandpipers move into new home in the UK.
The 13 Spoon-billed
Sandpipers - Eurynorhynchus pygmeus - from far eastern Russia
have been moved out of quarantine into purpose-built quarters at the Wildfowl
& Wetlands Trust in Gloucestershire. These Spoon-billed Sandpipers will
form the basis of a breeding population providing a safety net against
extinction should the wild population continue its dramatic decline. It is
intended that their descendants will be released into the wild. |