The EAAFP Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force (SBS TF) published its tenth newsletter in August 2013. In this newsletter, you can find the following key news on 25 young chicks reared for head-starting in Meinypil’gino, chukotka; 9 more potential breeding sites searched with Heritage Expedition; No more new breeding sites found; 10-11 breeding pairs in Meinypil’gino, Chukotka; 542 SBS records from Japan have been analysed; 2 Spoon-billed sandpiper (one first summer!) in Bohai Bay, Yellow Sea, China in late spring; 28 happy adult SBS in the captive breeding facilities in Slimbridge; £1195 generated for SBS conservation at the world’s first SBS devoted wedding!
