By Kristine Sabillo Using the world’s smallest known satellite transmitter, conservationists were able to track a spoon-billed sandpiper, thought to be the world’s rarest migratory shorebird.

For a shorebird, the upland sandpiper is a bit odd: It tends to avoid wetlands, instead opting for the prairie scene, where it distinguishes itself by hunting insects like grasshoppers rather than ...

Extremely rare ‘spoonie’ bird added to ark of imperiled animals. The 13,000th image in National Geographic’s Photo Ark is the spoon-billed sandpiper, a critically endangered shorebird known ...

It was a single shorebird, an individual sandpiper. It was one of the species officially known as a solitary sandpiper. In reality, this species is most often seen one at a time, ...

Return of the Sandpiper Thanks to the Delaware Bay’s horseshoe crabs, the tide may be turning for an imperiled shorebird ...

The pectoral sandpiper, or the “calidris melanotos,” breeds in wet coastal tundra areas in the summer, which includes northern Canada and Alaska, and then migrates to South America for the winter.

Shorebird identification can be daunting. Shorebird enthusiasts scan flocks looking for a western sandpiper among the many semipalmated sandpipers, or an American golden-plover among the black ...

On the other, a tiny bird, the sandpiper, which relies on this place as its last stopover on a migration as long as 7,000 miles. Then there’s the mud itself, the prize of the fight.

For the last two months, artist Robin Hanson has been creating what he believes to be the world's largest semipalmated sandpiper. At 2.4 metres tall and weighing around 135 kilograms, the bird is ...

A group of Shorebird Festival participants identify birds during the late night birding tour with Ryan Marsh. The festival took place in Utqiagvik on June 29 and 30. Photo By Lloyd Pikok Jr.

Sixteen shorebird species have been reclassified to higher threat categories as the global population of migratory ... Banner image of a curlew sandpiper, courtesy of Ayuwat Jearwattanakanok ...

Birders have quipped that the peregrine falcon recovery program was too successful – that there are now too many.