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What the Pin-tailed Snipe sounds like
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This 25–27 cm long bird is similar to the longer-billed and longer-tailed common snipe. Adults have short greenish-grey legs and a long straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown on top, with cream lines down their back. They are pale underneath with a streaked buff breast and white belly. They have a dark stripe through the eye, with light stripes above and below it. Sexes are similar, and immatures differ only in minor plumage details. The wings are less pointed than common snipe, and lack the white trailing edge of that species.
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When to see the Pin-tailed Snipe
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Pin-tailed Snipe
The map shades 28 countries with regular records, and 5 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in United States, Australia, Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Maldives.
About the Pin-tailed Snipe
The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers.
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Easily confused with
African SnipeGallinago nigripennisThis 30–32 cm (12–13 in) long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader.
Great SnipeGallinago mediaAt 26–30 cm (10–12 in) in length and a 42–50 cm (17–20 in) wingspan, adults are only slightly larger, but much bulkier, than the common snipe and have a shorter bill.
Pantanal SnipeGallinago paraguaiaeThe adult Pantanal snipe is 26 to 30 cm (10 to 12 in) long.
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