Conservation status Spoon-billed Sandpiper is listed as Critically Endangered because it has an extremely small population, estimated at just 120-200 pairs in 2009, which is in rapid decline. The main causes of its population decline are believed to be hunting on its non-breeding grounds and widespread habitat loss in its breeding and non-breeding range. In addition to this, the recruitment of young birds into the breeding population is very low, leading to fears that the population is ageing and could crash even more suddenly and dramatically.
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