Facts About Common snipe
The common snipe 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".
The breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout the Palearctic.In the north, the distribution limit extends from Iceland over the north of the British Isles and northern Fennoscandia, where it occurs at around 70 ° N, as well as through European Russia and Siberia. Here it is mostly on the northern edge of the Taiga zone at 71 ° N, but reaches 74 ° N on the east coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. In the east it extends to the Anadyr, Kamchatka, the Bering Island and the Kuril Islands, The southern boundary of the distribution area in Europe runs through northern Portugal, central France, northern Italy, Bulgaria and the Ukraine, with populations in the west being only very scattered. In Asia, the distribution extends south to northern Turkestan, locally to Afghanistan and the Middle East, through the Altai and further to Manchuria and Ussuri. It is migratory, with European birds wintering in southern and western Europe and Africa (south to the Equator), and Asian migrants moving to tropical southern Asia. The North American Wilson's snipe was previously considered the same species, and is listed as such in older field guides.
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