Great Snipe

This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north eastern Europe and north western Russia. Great Snipes are migratory, wintering in Africa. The European breeding population is in steep decline.

The Great Snipe is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

The Great Snipe, Gallinago media is a small stocky wader. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north eastern Europe and north western Russia. Great Snipes are migratory, wintering in Africa. The European breeding population is in steep decline. The males display at a dusk lek during the breeding season, standing erect with chest puffed and tail fanned. They may jump into the air. More

The Great Snipe is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. References - 1. ^ BirdLife International (2006). Gallinago media. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. More

Like the other 15 species of snipe, the great snipe is a beautifully camouflaged wading bird (4). The bulky great snipe has brown, patterned plumage, with extensive dark barring on the white underside (2). The feathers at the leading edge of the wing have bold, white tips, and the corners of the tail are also white (2). The long, pointed, two-toned bill, characteristic of snipes (4), has a slight droop towards the tip (2). Females are, on average, significantly larger than male great snipes, but their plumage is very similar. More

The great snipe breeds in two separate areas; a western population breeds in the Scandinavian mountains and an eastern population is distributed from Poland, throughout the Baltic States, Ukraine and Belarus, and west Russia to the Yenisey River in Siberia. It winters in sub-Saharan Africa, stopping at a few sites between its breeding and wintering areas (2) (6). More

Great Snipe - Definition = Great Snipe Conservation status: Lower Risk (nt) Great Snipe Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae Genus: Gallinago Species: media More

Great Snipe Gallinago media at Sveipa Sweden Field Characters The Great Snipe Gallinago media is decidedly larger than the Snipe Gallinago gallinago. Kolthoff (1896) found that it ranged in weight from 140 grams in thin specimens to 213 grams in a very fat one, while Snipe averaged only 120 grams; Niethammer (1942) quoted even lower figures for the latter species, 13 specimens of which (mostly collected in April) ranged from 86 to 121 grams. More

The Great Snipe Hunt: Lumpus plays a prank on the Bean Scouts as they are on the search for the "snipe," but Lumpus is caught and the Jelly Beans think he's a "snipe." Write a Recap » Fans' Reviews +Review This Episode More Reviews * 7. More

Great Snipe determination Similar species Scolopacidae Bairds Sandpiper | Bar-Tailed Godwit | Black-Tailed Godwit | Broad-Billed Sandpiper | Buff-Breasted Sandpiper | Curlew | Curlew Sandpiper | Dunlin | Eskimo Curlew | Great Knot | Great Snipe | Greater Yellowlegs | Green Sandpiper | Greenshank | Grey Phalarope | Grey-tailed Tattler | Hudsonian Godwit | More

The Great Snipe is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Copyright: Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia. More

While discussing the use of geolocators the Great Snipe was one obvious candidate species. Very little is known about the migration habits and wintering quarters of this endangered Swedish breeding bird. For example, no ring recoveries are known from Africa, the region where Scandinavian birds are supposed to spend the winter. Great Snipes return to their breeding areas, and thus geolocators can indeed be used to reveal their migratory movements and wintering areas. More

3 great snipe's, and this was my first games after 3 weeks of CoD4! :)Views: 16Rating: Up...soapbox on MSN VideoAdded: 1 yr. More

Great Snipe are bigger and podgier than Common Snipe, more like a Woodcock in shape. They look altogether more barred than a Snipe due to the extensively barred underparts and the rows of black and white lines across the rufous wing coverts. The white edges to the outer tail are more extensive. Habitat Breeds in boggy areas above the tree line of Scandinavian mountains and also in extensive lowland swamps of eastern Europe. More

Great Snipe at Llobregat Delta, Barcelona, 22.5.2002 and the problems regading acceptance of this taxon from the Spanish Rarities Committee* Text by Ricard Guti More

Great Snipe, Boorong Berbie, from 'Drawings of Birds from Malacca', c. More

Great Snipe display song on the ground Gallinago media (6:15) Niels Krabbe XC25940 28-06-1988, Poland Great Snipe Song Gallinago media (1:09) Patrik Åberg XC27082 15-05-2008, Sweden Great Snipe Song Gallinago media (1:09) Patrik Åberg XC27083 15-05-2008, Sweden Great Snipe song Gallinago media (0:55) More

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The Great Snipe Hunt: Another hillarious episode! It's funy that Lumpus tries to prank the campers by searching the "snipe" that was in the wild. I really much loved it how the Jelly Trio were treating "Jeniffer". I really thought of the humor it had when Lumpus was falling from the tree and gets hit in the crutch while he fell! Overall: A+ for comedy. More

The Great Snipe (Gallinago major) may occasionally be met with on swampy places and heaths, and the Jack Snipe (Gallinago galli-nula) is chiefly found in Britain in winter, and is generally seen by small streams or ditches. The length of the Great Snipe is about 12 in., and it feeds chiefly on insect larvae of various kinds. More

Will the great snipe return to the meadows of Lake Durbe? News Structure & Staff Statutes History More