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WetlandPlatform nestMedium · 140 g
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The solitary snipe is a heavy snipe 29–31 cm long with a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Its upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned with medium brown stripes and whitish edges to the feathers forming lines down its back. The face is whitish. The breast is ginger-brown and the belly is white with brown barring on the flanks. The brown and black bill is long, straight and fairly slender. The legs and feet are yellowish-olive to yellowish-brown. All plumages are similar, but females average larger. There are two quite similar subspecies. Nominate G. s.
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When to see the Solitary Snipe
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Solitary Snipe
The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 1 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.
About the Solitary Snipe
The solitary snipe is a small stocky wader. It is found in the Palearctic from northeast Iran to Korea and Japan.
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Easily confused with
Jameson's SnipeGallinago jamesoniThis 30–32 cm long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader.
Giant SnipeGallinago undulataThis is the largest snipe at 36 to 47 cm (14 to 19 in) in length.
Madagascar SnipeGallinago macrodactylaThis is a large and heavy snipe, between 29–32 cm long with a stocky body and relatively short legs.
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