First ever Spoon-billed Sandpiper chicks hatch in the UK

Precious eggs rushed thousands of miles from Arctic Russia to WWT Slimbridge Fourteen Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers were hatched in captivity at WWT Slimbridge this week, a first for the UK and only the second flock ever to have been born in captivity. These latest chicks are part of an emergency conservation breeding mission to insure the species against imminent extinct...