Great snipe
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The great snipe is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia, from Scandinavia
Great Snipe, Åre, Jämtland, Sweden 15
Posture during display
Egg of Gallinago media
Snipe
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A snipe is any of about 26 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. They are distinguished by a very long, slender bill, eyes placed high on the head, and cryptic/camouflaging p
Great snipe
…English naturalist John Latham in 1787 with the binomial name Scolopax media. The name of the current genus Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The specific media is Latin for "intermediate", because this species is intermediate in…
Common snipe Botnsvatn
Depiction of a snipe hunter, by A. B. Frost
Snipe in Water, by Ohara Koson. Japan, 1900–1930