Swinhoe's Snipe
Gallinago megalaSwinhoe, R, 1861
English (US) Swinhoe's Snipe
The Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala) 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 wooded wetlands of south-central Siberia and northeastern Kazakhstan eastward to Amurland (southeastern Russia); winters wetland edge from east-central China, Taiwan, Philippines, and Malay Peninsula eastward through New Guinea, Melanesia, and MicronesiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago megala
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Swinhoe's Snipe
- Described by
- Swinhoe, R, 1861
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Swinhoe, R, 1861
- Type locality
- Between Takoo and -^^ Peking, China.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.1, vol.3, no.12 p.343
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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