31 Spoon-billed Sandpipers found in South Korea (1 Viewer)

I've just posted a summary on the Birds Korea website ( at http://www.birdskorea.org/ssmpupdate_may28.asp) of what's been found by the teams monitoring shorebird numbers on what's left of the once vast Saemaneum Estuary, and the adjacent Geum Estuary. Shorebird numbers at Saemangeum have plummeted (particularly numbers of Great Knots), but the still vital nature of the area can be appreciated when you learn that Geoff Styles, a member of Birds Korea and one of the people working on the Saemangeum Shorebird Monitoring Programme (SSMP), found 31 Spoon-billed Sandpipers feeding with c) 400 Red-necked Stints on May 26th!

If you've heard about Saemangeum but not really understood what the fuss was all about please have a look at the summary: it makes fascinating reading...

Thanks for your interest
Charlie

Hi Charlie,

Thanks that is great news about the Spoon-billed Sandpipers, the more rare birds found that use the area just might make the difference to stopping some of the destruction going on on down there. Please thank the all those nationalities doing the survey through them the word must spread to other countries and hopefully Korea will appreciate what little they have now got left in habitat and keep it.

Ann