Sandpipers, Snipes and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)
Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria) - HBW 3, p. 491
French: Bécassine solitaire
German: Einsiedlerbekassine
Spanish: Agachadiza Solitaria
Other common names: Tibet/Hermit Snipe
Taxonomy: Gallinago solitaria Hodgson, 1831, Nepal.
Genus formerly named Capella, as this name erroneously considered to pre-date Gallinago (see page 446). Validity of races uncertain. Two subspecies normally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- solitaria Hodgson, 1831 - high mountains of C Asia, from SC Siberia through Altai, Tien Shan and Pamirs to Himalayas and probably S Tibet; winters S to E Pakistan and N India, and E to Myanmar.
- japonica (Bonaparte, 1856) - mountains of Sakhalin and NE China (Heilongjiang), and probably also from Stanovoy Mts through Dzhugdzhur and Kolymskiy Mts to Kamchatka, and S to Sikhote Alin; winters from Amurland and Sakhalin to Kamchatka, and in Korea, Japan and E China.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird feeding actively in the forest floor. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 49 sec 4.2 -
A frontal view of a bird foraging and eating in the forest floor. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 35 sec 4 -
A bird foraging and preening in the forest floor.. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 24 sec 4 -
A bird foraging and eating an earthworm. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 23 sec 4 -
A bird foraging under the leaves to find food. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 23 sec 3.7 -
A bird eating an earthworm and then shaking its plumage. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 33 sec 3.7
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A bird foraging on the forest floor.
Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 4 -
A bird feeding.
Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 1 year ago 3.5 -
Photographed (through a bush!) at 12,500 feet near Muktinath. Scan from slide.
Locality Muktinath, Muktinath Valley, Nepal
M P Goodey 1 December 1986 28 weeks ago 2
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