Rare Sandpipers Found in Myanmar

By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer, General Science / Biology

This photo released by Birdlife International, shows spoon-billed sandpipers at Khok Kham, Samut Sakorn, Thailand in Oct. 2007. The discovery of 84 spoon-billed sandpipers in a coastal stretch in Myanmar earlier this year offers hope of saving the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Birdlife International, Peter Ericsson)

(AP) -- Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar, offering hope for saving the endangered birds, a conservation group said Thursday.

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