World Species : Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe)

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Gallinago gallinago (Common Snipe)

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Synonyms: Capella gallinago; Gallinago coelestris; Gallinago gallinago faeroeensi; Gallino gallino; Scolopax gallinago (homotypic)

Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The scientific name gallinago is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".

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Infraspecies

Gallinago gallinago faeroeensis
Gallinago gallinago gallinago (Common snipe)
Gallinago gallinago raddei

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0)

Unique (100)

Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0)

Unique & Vulnerable (100)

ED Score: 8.55796

EDGE Score: 2.25737

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Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	120 grams
Birth Weight ^[2]	11 grams
Female Weight ^[4]	116 grams
Male Weight ^[4]	101 grams
Weight Dimorphism ^[4]	14.9 %

Diet ^[3]	Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Invertibrates ^[3]	80 %
Diet - Plants ^[3]	10 %
Diet - Seeds ^[3]	10 %
Forages - Ground ^[3]	80 %
Forages - Water Surface ^[3]	20 %

Clutch Size ^[5]	4
Clutches / Year ^[6]	1
Fledging ^[4]	19 days
Incubation ^[2]	19 days
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	18 years
Speed ^[7]	38.252 MPH (17.1 m/s)
Wing Span ^[7]	20 inches (.52 m)

Female Maturity ^[2]	1 year
Male Maturity ^[2]	1 year

Important Bird Areas

Name	Location	IBA Criteria
Dvuob'ye	Russia (Central Asian)	A1, A3, A4i, A4iii
Lover Ob'	Russia (Central Asian)	A1, A4i, A4iii
Ósasvædi Ölfusár	Iceland	B1i, B2

Biodiversity Hotspots

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Name	Location	Endemic
California Floristic Province	Mexico, United States	No
Caribbean Islands	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S.	No
Caucasus	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey	No
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No
Himalaya	Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No
Indo-Burma	Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam	No
Irano-Anatolian	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan	No
Japan	Japan	No
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands	Mexico, United States	No
Mediterranean Basin	Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey	No
Mesoamerica	Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama	No
Mountains of Central Asia	Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan	No
Mountains of Southwest China	China, Myanmar	No
Philippines	Philippines	No
Tropical Andes	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela	No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena	Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru	No
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka	India, Sri Lanka	No

Prey / Diet

Haemopis sanguisuga (horse leech)	^[8]
Prasocuris marginella	^[8]
Tipula paludosa (European crane fly)	^[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Predators

Falco columbarius (Merlin)	^[8]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)	^[9]

Consumers

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Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0