Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinago - Bécassine des marais
Description identification
Subspecific information 2 subspecies
- Gallinago gallinago gallinago (c and n Europe and Asia)
- Gallinago gallinago faeroeensis (Iceland, Faroe Is., Orkney and Shetland Is.)
Foreign names
- Bécassine des marais,
- Agachadiza Común,
- Narceja-comum,
- Bekassine,
- Sárszalonka,
- Watersnip,
- Beccaccino comune,
- Enkelbeckasin,
- Enkeltbekkasin,
- močiarnica mekotavá,
- bekasina otavní,
- Dobbeltbekkasin,
- taivaanvuohi,
- becadell comú,
- Hrossagaukur,
- (bekas) kszyk,
- mērkaziņa, pērkoņkaza,
- kožica,
- Бекас,
- Berkik ekor-kipas,
- タシギ,
- 扇尾沙锥,
- นกปากซ่อมหางพัด,
- 田鷸〔扇尾沙錐〕,
Habitat
Forest : Boreal ; Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha), Tundra Wetlands (incl. pools and temporary waters from snowmelt) ; Marine Neritic : Estuaries ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Water Storage Areas (over 8ha), Ponds (below 8ha), Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land
Sources of information
- IOC World Bird List (v10.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2019.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
- Passeriformes
- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Piciformes
- Podicipediformes
- Procellariiformes
- Psittaciformes
- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
- Sphenisciformes
- Strigiformes
- Struthioniformes
- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes