Talk:Spoon-billed sandpiper

Captive Breeding
There was news June 3-5 2011 on internet of a captive breeding program involving quarantine at Moscow Zoo and then transfer to GB (UK) G. Robert Shiplett 21:33, 5 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grshiplett (talk • contribs)

Importance
Surely this bird is above "mid-importance" for en.wikipedia.org and ru and kr and ... G. Robert Shiplett 21:35, 5 June 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grshiplett (talk • contribs)

Name change confirmed?
According to a taxonomic note on the IUCN page, Calidris pygmaea (del Hoyo and Collar 2014) was previously placed in the genus Eurynorhynchus as E. pygmeus. Time to change the name here? -- Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 18:55, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and updated the page. BirdLife Int. also concurs. --Cpt.a.haddock (talk) 11:03, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Language
Why do you use the word "reclaimed" in this sentence:

the important staging area at Saemangeum, South Korea, has already been partially reclaimed, and the remaining wetlands are under serious threat of reclamation in the near future

Why not change the word to "destroyed" or "degraded"? "Reclamation" is a good thing. The sentence is misleading as written. I would suggest at the very least changing the word to "degraded." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.40.109.65 (talk) 18:36, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

ABA checklist spelling of name
The scientific name of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper. The following alludes to an above comment about the confirmation of the name change.

I have examined the list of the ABA for their region (American Birding Association, version 8.11) and note that the scientific name of the Spoon-billed Sandpiper is spelled differently than what I have known it to be.

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

ABA spelling:  Calidris pygmea

Wikipedia spelling:  Calidris pygmaea

See discussion on this from iNaturalist

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/question-about-taxon-changes/9426

I examined the original citation in Linnaeus, Systema Naturae (10th edn., 1758), and the name is Platalea pygmea (p. 231).

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946305#page/235/mode/1up

Has there been a recent change to revert back to Linnaeus' original spelling of which I am not familiar? Thank you for your consideration of this. db-user db-user (talk) 21:55, 29 May 2023 (UTC)