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Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. [2] The generic name Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina , "hen" and the suffix -ago , "resembling".
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Depiction of a snipe hunter, by A. B. Frost Snipe in Water, by Ohara Koson. Japan, 1900–1930. Camouflage may enable snipes to remain undetected by hunters in marshland. The bird is also highly alert and startled easily, rarely staying long in the open. If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty wing-shooting due to the bird's erratic flight ...
Latham's snipe: Gallinago hardwickii (Gray, JE, 1831) 40 African snipe: Gallinago nigripennis Bonaparte, 1839: 41 Common snipe: Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758) 42 Wilson's snipe: Gallinago delicata (Ord, 1825) 43 Giant snipe: Gallinago undulata (Boddaert, 1783) 44 Noble snipe: Gallinago nobilis Sclater, PL, 1856: 45 Puna snipe: Gallinago ...
Common snipe nest in a well-hidden location on the ground, laying four eggs of a dark olive colour, blotched and spotted with rich brown, [12] which are incubated by the female for 18–21 days. The freshly hatched young are covered in dark maroon down, variegated with black, white and buff. [ 12 ]
Fossil bones of some undescribed Gallinago species most similar to the great snipe have been recovered in Late Miocene or Early Pliocene deposits (c. 5 mya) of Lee Creek Mine, USA. The large West Indian species Gallinago kakuki went extinct during the late Quaternary period, and despite its distribution may actually be more closely related to ...
Wilson's snipe; Wood snipe This page was last edited on 1 July 2020, at 01:52 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
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