Last Updated: Friday, April 8,
2016 - 16:19
Beijing: A spoon-billed sandpiper
was spotted in south China's Hainan province
this week, the third time the endangered bird has
been seen on the tropical island.
Luo Lixiang with the Xinying
Mangrove National Wetland Park photographed the sandpiper on Wednesday while he
was patrolling the park. He did not notice the rare bird till he checked the
photos later at night, Xinhua reported.
Spoon-billed sandpipers are
listed as "critically endangered" by the International Union for
Conservation of Nature.
There are fewer than 200
spoon-billed sandpipers living in the wild due to environmental degradation,
according to Lu Gang, an expert with Kadoorie Conservation China.
"Spoon-billed sandpipers
migrate to wetlands in southeast Asia every spring and autumn, and during the
course they make stops in China's Jiangsu, Hainan and Guangdong
provinces," Lu said.
In 2009, English birdwatcher Paul
I. Holt and his assistant found a spoon-billed sandpiper in Hainan's Haikou
city, the first time it was spotted on the island.
Another spoon-billed sandpiper
was spotted in Hainan two years later.
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