This Spoon-billed sandpiper was born somewhere in the Arctic of northeastern Russia, in the spring of 1988, a diminutive fluff camouflaged among the tundra vegetation. A few months later she flew south for her first winter, aiming instinctively for the intertidal mudflats of Southeast Asia. About two thousand miles into her journey—still in Russia—she found … Continue reading A Spoon-Billed Curiosity