This video, recorded in Russia, says about itself: Displaying
male Spoon-billed Sandpiper somewhere in Chukotka on June 13th
2010. From Wildlife Extra: Important Spoon-billed sandpiper site
found in China In the wild, only about a half of a spoon-billed
sandpiper (0.6 on average) fledges a year for every breeding
pair. Of this small number, very few young birds make it back to
Russia to breed – in fact five times as many would need to make
it back just to keep the population stable. This means that
taking eggs for conservation breeding has a negligible effect on
the population, as a small proportion of eggs result in fledged
birds, and a high proportion of birds that fledge do not
currently survive. A third of the global population of one of
the planet’s rarest species discovered at threatened site
October 2011. A third of the global population of the critically
endangered spoon-billed sandpiper has been discovered at a key
stop-over site in China. A record 103 birds were recorded at a
new site within the Rud