Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Pintail Snipe (Gallinago stenura) - HBW 3, p. 492
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.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird foraging on a grassland. Locality Phnom Krom Marsh, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 March 2011 1 year ago 32 sec 3.3 -
An individual feeding on a grassland. Locality Phnom Krom Marsh, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 4 March 2011 1 year ago 33 sec 3.3
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An adult.
Locality Heuksan-do Island, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea
AurélienAudevard 27 April 2008 3 years ago 4.6 -
A standing adult.
Locality Heuksan-do Island, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea
AurélienAudevard 27 April 2008 3 years ago 4.5 -
An adult.
Locality Heuksan-do Island, Jeollanam-do Province, South Korea
AurélienAudevard 27 April 2008 3 years ago 4.4 -
Near a lake
Locality Yala (Ruhunu) National Park , Sri Lanka
John A Thompson 25 March 2012 1 year ago 4 -
A bird wading in a shallow pool
Locality Southern Thailand, Thailand (Monotypic species)
Ian Fulton 25 March 2007 3 years ago 3
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