Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Spoon-billed Sandpiper (Eurynorhynchus pygmeus) - HBW 3, p. 529
French: Bécasseau spatule
German: Löffelstrandläufer
Spanish: Correlimos Cuchareta
Other common names: Spoonbill Sandpiper
Taxonomy: Platalea pygmea Linnaeus, 1758, Surinam = eastern Asia.
Often placed in genus Calidris. Monotypic.
Distribution: Chukotskiy Peninsula S to N Kamchatka. Winters locally from SE India and Sri Lanka to Indochina and S China, and S to Singapore.
- Critically Endangered Enlarge map
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feeding and resting Locality Rudong, Jiangsu, China (Northern)
Vicky Cheng 9 September 2012 32 weeks ago 2 min 24 sec 4.9 -
Preening Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Kim Tarsey 11 March 2013 4 weeks ago 1 min 13 sec 4.8 -
A winter plumaged adult feeding by 'surface picking', lateral, dorsal and frontal views. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
Mark Andrews 5 February 2012 1 year ago 58 sec 4.6 -
Preening Spoon-billed Sandpiper alongside a Red-necked Stint. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
Mark Andrews 8 February 2011 2 years ago 1 min 3 sec 4.4 -
Spoon-billed Sandpiper, roosting bird with Red-necked Stints and Kentish Plover. Lateral and frontal views with the odd yawn. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 2 February 2010 3 years ago 2 min 30 sec 4.3 -
A feeding Spoon-billed Sandpiper, surface picking, one of three techniques regularly observed on their wintering grounds in Thai Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 4 February 2011 2 years ago 17 sec 4
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper, wintering bird, Pak Thale Saltpans, Thailand.
Locality Central Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 3 years ago 4.4 -
Winter plumage; taking off. With Curlew Sandpipers
Locality Hong Kong
Martin Hale 5 April 2011 1 year ago 4.1 -
Wintering bird, frontal view.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 3 years ago 4 -
a single bird foraging in shallow water.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 17 November 2012 18 weeks ago 3.9 -
a wintering bird
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Marco Valentini 9 March 2013 7 weeks ago 3.5 -
a bird in flight over water.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
David Beadle 16 November 2012 18 weeks ago 3.5
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