The Spoon-billed Sandpiper

I have just finished reading a very bleak, yet inspiring, series of posts about the plight of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. You can read the first post (with links to the others) here. It is a bird I have long wanted to see and I hope that its serious decline is reversed soon before it's too late. The loss of this charismatic and unique species would be symbolic of the accelerating extinction of species which is now estimated to have reached 10,000 times the background rate. A must read for anyone interested in birding or conservation.