Your adoption roost
Claim your place in the flock
Every unclaimed bird below is real — a spot still waiting for a guardian. Click one to see who’s already taken theirs under their wing.
Symbolic adoption
What your adoption includes
A digital certificate
Naming your bird and its place in the roost — yours to keep, print, or share.
Bi-yearly field updates
Twice a year, dispatches straight from the field partners guarding the flyway — see how the effort is progressing, mudflat by mudflat.
A place in the roost
Your bird holds its spot in the roost ring for the length of your adoption, visible to every visitor who comes looking.
This is a symbolic adoption — your contribution funds real field protection, not a physical bird. Gifts are tax-deductible in the U.S. (ICF is a 501(c)3, EIN 83-4647086). We’re capping this flock at 500 adoptions, a solid estimate of the entire adult spoon-billed sandpiper population left on Earth. Want to help beyond the 500? You can always support our SBS field partners directly.
The route
8,000 kilometers, one flyway
From Arctic tundra to tropical mudflats — every stopover along the way has to hold.
Field partners · Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Thailand
Taking down the nets, mudflat by mudflat