Wood Snipe

When to see the Wood Snipe

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Wood Snipe

The map shades 4 countries with regular records, and 2 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 India, Bangladesh.

About the Wood Snipe

The wood snipe is a species of snipe which breeds in the Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and southern China. In winter, it occurs at lower altitudes in the Himalayas, as a regular visitor in small numbers to north Vietnam. it also occurs as a vagrant in central and southern India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, north Thailand and Laos. It is reportedly very well-known to Chauri herders in the Himalayas.

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Easily confused with

Fuegian SnipeGallinago stricklandiiThis 30–32 cm long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Imperial SnipeGallinago imperialisThis 29–31 cm (11–12 in) long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Madagascar SnipeGallinago macrodactylaThis is a large and heavy snipe, between 29–32 cm long with a stocky body and relatively short legs.