The Chatham snipe or Chatham Island snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla) is a species of wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is endemic to the Chatham Islands...
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exception of the Chatham snipe and the Forbes's snipe (described from fossils found in the Chatham Islands) all subsequent New Zealand snipe collected were...
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The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows...
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The jack snipe or jacksnipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a small stocky wader. It is the smallest snipe, and the only member of the genus Lymnocryptes. Features...
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Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. The generic name Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen"...
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the Chatham oystercatcher, the Chatham gerygone, the Chatham pigeon, Forbes' parakeet, the Chatham snipe and the shore plover. The endemic Chatham shag...
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was studying the New Zealand snipe genus Coenocorypha, after hearing and recording the aerial display of the Chatham snipe (C. pusilla), investigated the...
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species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders...
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The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers. It breeds in northern Russia...
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The great snipe (Gallinago media) is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation...
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Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) is a medium-sized, long-billed, migratory snipe of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. The snipe is 29–33 cm long...
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many folk names include timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, and becasse. The population of the American woodcock has fallen...
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Forbes's snipe (Coenocorypha chathamica) is an extinct species of New Zealand snipe formerly endemic to the Chatham Islands. It was the larger of two species...
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species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the...
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Dunlin (redirect from Tang Snipe)
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2023). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List. V 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union...
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Mangere Island (redirect from Mangere Island (Chatham Islands))
Several endemic Chatham Island bird species have since been reintroduced to the island, Chatham snipe in 1970, black robin in 1976, Chatham tomtit in 1987...
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Swinhoe's snipe, (Gallinago megala), also known as forest snipe or Chinese snipe, is a medium-sized (length 27–29 cm, wingspan 38–44 cm, weight 120 gm)...
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current binomial name Scolopax rusticola. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. The specific epithet rusticola is the Latin name of a gamebird...
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The Madagascar snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla) is a small stocky wader. It breeds only in the humid eastern half of Madagascar, from sea-level up to 2...
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snipe, Gallinago solitaria Latham's snipe, Gallinago hardwickii Wood snipe, Gallinago nemoricola Pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura Swinhoe's snipe,...
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The Jameson's snipe or Andean snipe (Gallinago jamesoni) is a small, stocky wader. It breeds in the Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela...
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Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists'...
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ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union...
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Scolopax semipalmata. Gmelin based his description on the "semipalmated snipe" from New York that had been described in 1785 by both the English ornithologist...
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names included Blackwit, Whelp, Yarwhelp, Shrieker, Barker and Jadreka Snipe. The Icelandic name for the species is Jaðrakan. There is an estimated global...
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The African snipe (Gallinago nigripennis) also known as the Ethiopian snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in eastern and southern Africa in wet...
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p. 262. Gill, F.; Donsker, D.; Rasmussen, P., eds. (2021). "Sandpipers, snipes, coursers". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists'...
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Subantarctic snipe (C. aucklandica) Snares snipe (C. huegeli) Chatham snipe (C. pusilla) Gallinago (Snipes) Puna snipe (G. andina) Wilson's snipe (G. delicata)...
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(1996). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds: Volume 3: Snipe to Pigeons (PDF). Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. pp. 1016–1025...
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Subantarctic snipe (C. aucklandica) Snares snipe (C. huegeli) Chatham snipe (C. pusilla) Gallinago (Snipes) Puna snipe (G. andina) Wilson's snipe (G. delicata)...
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