Wood Snipe

Gallinago nemoricola - Bécassine des bois

Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Charadriiformes

  • Family
    :

    Scolopacidés

  • Genus
    :

    Gallinago

  • Species
    :

    nemoricola

Descriptor

Hodgson, 1836

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 32 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 142 à 198 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Wood Snipe (Gallinago nemoricola) is a species of bird in the Scolopacidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Bécassine des bois,
  • Agachadiza del Himalaya,
  • narceja-do-bosque,
  • Nepalbekassine,
  • nepáli sárszalonka,
  • Bossnip,
  • Beccaccino boschereccio,
  • skogsbeckasin,
  • Himalayabekkasin,
  • močiarnica horská,
  • bekasina himálajská,
  • Skovbekkasin,
  • himalajankurppa,
  • becadell de l'Himàlaia,
  • bekas himalajski,
  • Himalaju mērkaziņa,
  • Гималайский дупель,
  • モリジシギ,
  • 林沙锥,
  • นกปากซ่อมพง,
  • 林沙錐,

Voice song and cries

Habitat

Forest : Temperate ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude ; Wetlands (inland) : Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Other sources of interest

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