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Chia Chia and Ching Ching arrived in September 1974 to great fanfare, after a deal struck by Edward Heath with China's Chairman Mao. Above: Mr Heath pays the pair a visit.
Spoon-billed sandpiper Although this small wader that breeds in Russia isn’t closely related to the spoonbills, it also has a spatula-shaped beak that helps pick up invertebrates from mudflats. Unlike other birds, it emerges from the egg with a fully formed bill, which pecks at the wet ground rapidly to create a vortex that traps its prey. Sadly, the sandpiper is now a rare sight and is listed as critically endangered due to reclamation and large-scale loss of wetlands and mudflats, which are key to their replenishment during migration, though lucky twitchers have reported occasionally spot...