Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae) - HBW 3

Pintail Snipe (Gallinago stenura)

French: Bécassine à queue pointue German: Spießbekassine Spanish: Agachadiza Colirrara
Other common names: Pin-tailed/Asiatic Snipe

Taxonomy: Scolopax stenura Bonaparte, 1830, Sunda Islands.
Genus formerly named Capella, as this name erroneously considered to pre-date Gallinago (see page 446). Monotypic.

Distribution: NC & E Russia, from Ural Mts through Siberia and Transbaikalia to Sea of Okhotsk. Winters from Indian Subcontinent and Maldives through Indochina to SE China and Taiwan, and S to Philippines and W Indonesia; also found irregularly in small numbers in Saudi Arabia, E Africa and Aldabra Is.