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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 ...
The common snipe was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Scolopax gallinago. [2] The species is now placed with 17 other snipe in the genus Gallinago that was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760.
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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 ...
The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. [1] The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). [5] Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea.