On BBC website:
Endangered spoon-billed sandpipers arriving at their wintering grounds in China are being threatened by nets designed to trap shorebirds.
The spoon-billed sandpiper is one of the world's rarest birds.
Recent sightings of the bird at several new sites along the coast of southern China indicate the species is more widespread than thought.
But the study also found evidence of large-scale shorebird trapping using "mist nets" in some of these key areas.
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According to BirdLife International: "Illegal bird-netting now poses a major threat to spoon-billed sandpipers and other shorebirds."
In 2003 the team discovered a spoon-billed sandpiper caught in a bird trapper's net in Zhanjiang.
And during their recent survey the team of conservationists recorded a total of 460 mist nets in use beside shorebird roost-sites on fishponds, paddyfields, marshes and sandbars on the coast.
Spoon-billed sandpipers threatened by trapping in China