BIRDS

Here's a cool website about some birds.

And here's a link to the Audubon Society

Secretary Birds

• Giant, long-legged raptor that hunts on foot and literally stomps snakes to death
• Hunts on grasslands, savannas, and shrublands of sub-Saharan Africa
• 11/10 fashion sense , 4’3”, largest bird of prey in terms of height and length
• ENDANGERED — habitat loss from agriculture and urbanization, overgrazing, droughts, pesticide poisoning, collisions with power lines and vehicles

Spoon-billed Sandpiper

• Tiny shorebird with a cartoonishly flat spoon-shaped bill
• Forages on tidal mudflats for invertebrates
• CRITICALLY ENDANGERED — destruction of tidal flat habitats, urban development, sea-level rise and coastal engineering changes mudflats, shrubs encroach on open tundra