Wood Snipe
Gallinago nemoricolaHodgson, BH, 1836
English (US) Wood Snipe
The Wood Snipe (Gallinago nemoricola) 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 alpine meadows of western Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh to eastern India and south-central China; winters to lower-elevation wetlands and woodlands, rarely to Indian Peninsula and northern Southeast AsiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago nemoricola
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Wood Snipe
- Described by
- Hodgson, BH, 1836
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Hodgson, BH, 1836
- Type locality
- Nepal.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London pt.4, no.37 p.8
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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