Latham's Snipe
Gallinago hardwickii(Gray, JE, 1831)
English (US) Latham's Snipe
The Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds meadows and fields of eastern Amurland and southern Sakhalin (southeastern Russia) southward through Honshu (central Japan); winters freshwater wetlands of eastern Australia including TasmaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago hardwickii
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Latham's Snipe
- Described by
- (Gray, JE, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax Hardwickii
- Described by
- (Gray, JE, 1831)
- Type locality
- Tasmania.
- Original description
- The zoological miscellany 1 p.16
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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