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    The Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its...
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    name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being...
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    The Amami woodcock (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than the Eurasian woodcock, and may be conspecific...
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    display flight like the Eurasian woodcock, but the calls are different.[citation needed] It is smaller than Eurasian woodcock, and has much darker plumage...
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  • Sulawesi woodcock (Scolopax celebensis) also known as Celebes woodcock, is a medium-sized wader. It is larger and darker than Eurasian woodcock but with...
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    genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). Woodcocks inhabit forested and mixed...
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    The Eurasian curlew or common curlew (Numenius arquata) is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews...
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    collected on Luzon in the 1960s, these were originally misidentified as Eurasian woodcock specimens. It was not until the bird was heard calling in 1993, and...
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    the UK, with the term "cocker" deriving from their use to hunt the Eurasian woodcock. When the breed was brought to the United States, it was bred to a...
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    The Eurasian or common whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), also known as the white-rumped whimbrel in North America, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae...
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    The Moluccan woodcock (Scolopax rochussenii), also known as the Obi woodcock, is a lowland wader endemic to Indonesia. Its distribution is restricted...
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    Canada goose and pink-footed goose Wood pigeon Cuckoo Eurasian woodcock Common snipe Eurasian golden plover Corncrake Capercaillie are not currently...
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    bills and mottled brown plumage. The English name is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger"...
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    Scolopax media. The name of the current genus Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The...
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    mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates...
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    Features such as its sternum make it quite distinct from other snipes or woodcocks. The common name has been said to come from the Welsh word for a snipe...
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    Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". Two...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. The southern subspecies C. a. schinzii...
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  • Thumbnail for Common redshank
    The common redshank or simply redshank (Tringa totanus) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. The common redshank was formally described...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. BirdLife International (2024). "Calidris...
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    (S. mira) Moluccan woodcock (S. rochussenii) New Guinea woodcock (S. rosenbergii) Eurasian woodcock (S. rusticola) Javan woodcock (S. saturata) Coenocorypha...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. In the Nukumanu language of the Nukumanu...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Wintering adult near Hodal, Faridabad...
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    many hosts include the common moorhen, Eurasian woodcock, grouse, European robin, goldcrest, willow tit, Eurasian treecreeper and blackbirds. "Dasypsyllus...
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    (Vieillot, 1819) (A) Jack snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus (BrĂ¼nnich, 1764) Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus, 1758 Great snipe, Gallinago media (Latham...
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    glareola) is a small wader belonging to the sandpiper family Scolopacidae. A Eurasian species, it is the smallest of the shanks, a genus of mid-sized, long-legged...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[citation needed] In 2024, T. nebularia...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. In New Zealand the species is protected...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. BirdLife International (2018). "Phalaropus...
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    as the type species. The scientific name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The...
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