Great Snipe
Gallinago media(Latham, J, 1787)
English (US) Great Snipe
The Great Snipe (Gallinago media) 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 from northern Scandinavia and eastern Poland eastward to Yenisei River (western Siberia); winters wet grassland of tropical and subtropical sub-Saharan AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago media
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Great Snipe
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1787)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax Media
- Described by
- (Latham, J, 1787)
- Type locality
- England, based on Gen. Syn., 3, pt. 1, p. 133, no. 4.
- Original description
- Supplement to the general synopsis of birds p.292
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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