In response, the species was uplisted from Vulnerable to Endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2004, and then again to Critically Endangered in 2008 (BirdLife International 2009).Targeted efforts to gather supporting data from the wintering grounds began with a survey ofthe Indian Sunderbans (though this failed to record Spoon-billed Sandpiper) in 2005 (Z๖ckler et al. 2005) followed by a survey in Bangladesh deploying three teams in January 2006 that recorded 11 individuals (Z๖ckler &Bunting 2006).