Wilson’s Snipe
(Gallinago delicata)
Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy
Conservation Status |
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| IUCN Red List | LC - Least Concern |
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| NatureServe | N5B, N5N - Secure Breeding and Nonbreeding SNRB - Unranked Breeding |
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| Minnesota | not listed |
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Description |
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The crown and nape has pale longitudinal stripes, not horizontal bars. The underparts are white. The breast, sides, and flanks are heavily barred. |
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Size |
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10½″ to 11½″ in length 18″ wingspan |
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Voice |
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Similar Species |
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American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) has horizontal bars, not longitudinal stripes, across the head and nape of neck. The flanks are buff, not barred. The underparts are buff, not white. It is found in woodlands and thickets adjacent to grassy clearings. |
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Habitat |
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Open wetlands, including cattail and bulrush marshes, sedge meadows, floodplains, bogs, fens, willow and red osier dogwood thickets |
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Ecology |
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Migration |
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March to early May and early September to early November |
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Nesting |
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Food |
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Distribution |
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Occurrence |
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Common migrant and breeder |
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The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map |
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Taxonomy |
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| Class | Aves (birds) | ||
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Charadriiformes (shorebirds and allies) | ||
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Scolopacidae (sandpipers and allies) | ||
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Gallinago (typical snipessnipes) | ||
Subordinate Taxa |
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Synonyms |
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Capella gallinago delicata |
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Seemed like he was resting on his trip south. |
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Snipe... |
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aWebWizard |
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so tiny - a baby as big as a robin pecking into the dirt |
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Slideshows |
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| Common (Wilson's) Snipe Andree Reno Sanborn |
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Capella gallinago |
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| Wilson's Snipe Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren |
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| Wilson's Snipe JMC Nature Photos |
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| Wilsons Snipe 01 Jun 3, 2018 |
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Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago delicata) Location: my yard on Lake Mille Lacs, Garrison MN so tiny - a baby as big as a robin pecking into the dirt Video by aWebWizard |
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Other Videos |
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| Wilson's Snipe on Post WIld Bird Video Productions |
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Uploaded on May 26, 2011 Wilson's snipe calling from a fence post in Maine. © 2011 Garth McElroy License at http://www.paya.com/videos/135194 |
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| Wilson's Snipe Migration and Breeding WIld Bird Video Productions |
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Uploaded on Apr 5, 2011 Wilson's Snipe Migration and Breeding display. Connecticut and Wyoming clips. |
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| common snipe ''wilson's snipe'' Rod Innes |
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Uploaded on Apr 3, 2011 this snipe was feeding in a water ditch in the winter Dec. 2010. normaly they go, south in the winter to southern states and north south america. |
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| Wilson's Snipe Dah Professor |
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Published on Feb 4, 2013 Stabilized footage of a feeding Wilson's Snipe Captuerd at Blackpoint Drive, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida |
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| Wilson's Snipe - A Rainwater Basin Shorebird NebraskaBirds |
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Uploaded on Apr 23, 2009 Wilson's (Common) Snipe actively foraging at Straightwater WMA, Seward County, 23 April 2009. |
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| Mike Poeppe 5/5/2023 |
Location: just east of Hohak, MN |
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| Earl Bye 11/5/2020 |
Location: Colvill Park Seemed like he was resting on his trip south. |
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| Dan W. Andree 5/7/2020 |
Location: Sandpiper Prairie |
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| aWebWizard 6/3/2018 |
Location: my yard on Lake Mille Lacs, Garrison MN so tiny - a baby as big as a robin pecking into the dirt |
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