Pin-tailed Snipe
Gallinago stenura(Bonaparte, CLJL, 1831)
English (US) Pin-tailed Snipe
The Pin-tailed Snipe (Gallinago stenura) 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 low Arctic tundra to temperate montane meadows from northwestern Siberia and northeastern Kazakhstan eastward to Sea of Okhotsk (eastern Siberia); winters inland wetlands from southern Arabian Peninsula eastward through southern Asia to Ryukyu Islands (southern Japan) and southward to Taiwan and Greater SundasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago stenura
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Pin-tailed Snipe
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax stenura
- Described by
- (Bonaparte, CLJL, 1831)
- Type locality
- Sunda Islands.
- Original description
- Annali di Storia Naturale 4 p.335
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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