Rare spoon-billed sandpipers hatch in Britain - Telegraph.co.uk

"As well as the conservation breeding programme preserving birds possibly for release and preventing extinction, it also allows us to develop techniques to intervene so we can cut out predation of eggs and chicks," Mr Jarrett from WWT said.

The scheme to save the birds is a collaboration between the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), the RSPB, Birds Russia, Moscow Zoo, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Birdlife International, ArcCona Consulting and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force.