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Black-winged Pratincole

Animals; Birds

The Black-winged Pratincole, Glareola nordmanni, is a wader in the pratincole bird family, Glareolidae. Their most unusual feature of the pratincoles is that although classed as waders they typically ...

Pin-tailed Snipe

Animals; Birds

The Pintail Snipe, Gallinago stenura, also known as the Pin-tailed Snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in northern Russia and migrates to spend the non-breeding season in southern Asia from ...

Great Snipe

Animals; Birds

The Great Snipe, Gallinago media is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north eastern Europe and north ...

Wilson's Snipe

Animals; Birds

Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. This species was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the Common Snipe, G. Gallinago. Their breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, ...

Common Snipe

Animals; Birds

The Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout northern Europe and northern Asia.

Jack Snipe

Animals; Birds

The Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus is a small stocky wader. It is the smallest snipe, and the only member of the genus Lymnocryptes, which is quite distinct from other snipes or woodcocks. Their ...

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Animals; Birds

The Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tryngites subruficollis, is a small shorebird. . Subruficollis breeds in the open arctic tundra of North America and is a very long-distance migrant, spending the ...

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