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Spoon-billed Sandpiper on BBC

From BBC Nature News: 19 December 2011
Spoon-billed sandpipers: A rare bird odyssey

BBC News features a short film of Nigel Jarrett, head of conservation breeding at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), recalling the ‘odyssey’ that Spoon-billed Sandpipers have been through and explains why they are so precious.

Check it out here at BBC Nature.

Expedition footage for BBC courtesy of WWT.