Snipes, Sandpipers 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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Feeding bird showing typical bobbing action, lateral, frontal and dorsal views. Locality Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India (ssp solitaria)
Mark Andrews 17 October 2012 25 weeks ago 48 sec 4.6 -
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 2 years ago 35 sec 4.4 -
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 2 years ago 24 sec 4.4 -
A bird foraging and eating an earthworm. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 2 years ago 23 sec 4.4 -
A bird feeding actively in the forest floor. Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 3 years ago 49 sec 4.4 -
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 2 years ago 33 sec 4.2
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Front lateral view of a bird in water.
Locality Leh, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India (ssp solitaria)
Mark Andrews 17 October 2012 25 weeks ago 4 -
A bird foraging on the forest floor.
Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 2 years ago 3.8 -
A bird feeding.
Locality Maioka Park, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan (ssp japonica)
Josep del Hoyo 23 January 2010 3 years 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 1 year ago 2
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