Sandpipers, Snipes 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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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 50 weeks ago 1 min 3 sec 4.2 -
winter adult foraging Locality Sonadia Island, Bangladesh (Monotypic species)
Alexander Lees 9 March 2010 27 weeks ago 27 sec 4 -
Roosting bird with a Red-necked Stint with some close-up views. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
Mark Andrews 2 February 2010 1 year ago 5 min 5 sec 4 -
A rather long-billed individual actively feeding, note the rather characteristic deep-probing technique. Locality Central Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 30 January 2010 1 year ago 4 min 10 sec 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 1 year ago 2 min 30 sec 4 -
Feeding bird, working a relatively small area alongside a Red-necked Stint. Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
Mark Andrews 31 January 2011 50 weeks ago 1 min 33 sec 3.8
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Spoon-billed Sandpiper, wintering bird, Pak Thale Saltpans, Thailand.
Locality Central Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 2 years ago 4.3 -
Winter plumage; taking off. With Curlew Sandpipers
Locality Hong Kong
Martin Hale 5 April 2011 2 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 4 -
Wintering bird, frontal view.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 2 years ago 3.7 -
Wintering bird.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 2 years ago 3.3 -
Three wintering birds.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 2 years ago 3 -
Wintering bird.
Locality Laem Pak Bia-Pak Thale, Phetchaburi Province, Western Thailand, Thailand
Mark Andrews 12 February 2007 2 years ago 3
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