Solitary Snipe

This is a large and 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.

The Solitary Snipe is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

If accepted, Solitary Snipe would become a 1st North American record. Posted at 11:07 PM in Rare Birds | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e5505da1178834010534a63a54970c Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Apparent Solitary Snipe - St. Paul Island, AK: Comments Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. More

The Solitary Snipe, Gallinago solitaria, is a small stocky wader. It breeds discontinuously in the mountains of eastern Asia, in eastern Russia, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Many birds are sedentary in the high mountains, or just move downhill in hard weather, but others are non-migratory, wintering in northeast Iran, Pakistan, northern India and Japan. It is a vagrant to Saudi Arabia, eastern India and Hong Kong. More

The Solitary Snipe builds a saucer-shaped nest of dry grass in the drier areas of its breeding wetland. The nest is concealed in a dense tuft of grass or sedges. This bird has an aerial display, which involves flying high in circles, followed by a powerful stoop during which the bird makes a "drumming" sound, caused by vibrations of modified outer tail feathers. More

The Solitary Snipe, Gallinago solitaria, is a small stocky wader. It breeds discontinuously in the mountains of eastern Asia, in eastern Russia, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. More

Alert: Probable SOLITARY SNIPE on St. Paul Island - September 11th, 2008 · Rick Wright · News, Recent Sightings and Highlights · No Comments Senior Leader Gavin Bieber writes from Alaska: Late the evening of September 10, a large, dark, pot-bellied snipe was flushed out of the cut on Hutchinson Hill, the northeast point of St. Paul Island. We quickly relocated the bird on top of the hill, from where it flushed south along the road. More

The Solitary Snipe makes a hoarse kensh call as it takes off, and has a far carrying chok-a-chok-a call when displayinging. The Solitary Snipe can be distinguished from other snipe by its ginger breast, whitish face and white lines on its back. It has a relatively slow, heavy flight. Behavior This snipe breeds in mountain bogs and river valleys above the timberline,typically from 2,400 m to 5000 m. More

Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria) is a scarce resident and winter visitor in Himalayas and north-east India. More

solitary snipe a bird of this country, never having seen but one in Scotland, and that was in Sutherlandshire. More

or solitary snipe, or woodcock-snipe, is G. major. (3) The small snipe, half-snipe, or jack-snipe is G. gallinula. They differ little except in size. In the United States the common snipe. also called jack-snipe and Wilson's snipe, is G. wilsoni or G. delicata, about as large as G. More