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Efforts to breed rare spoon-billed sandpipers fail after chicks die

2016-07-06 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An attempt to breed one of the worlds rarest birds in captivity has failed after the only two chicks which hatched died, conservationists said. Efforts to breed critically endangered spoon-billed sandpipers, named after their unusual beak, from the worlds only captive population seemed to have yielded results, with seven eggs laid and two chicks hatching. One of the tiny birds, which were little bigger than a bumblebee, died soon after it hatched at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) headquarters...

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