Spoon-billed Sandpiper, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia, 2011. Fewer than 200 breeding pairs remained at the time of filming. At 3:00 in the morning on July 1, 2011, I was huddled in a wind-battered blind on the Siberian tundra, listening through a hidden microphone to a nest that was about to change everything I understood about why I do this work. I had traveled nearly halfway around the world — Seattle to New York to Moscow, across all of Russia to the remote Chukotka Peninsula

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