Minnesota Seasons - Wilson’s Snipe

Conservation • Description • Habitat • Ecology • Distribution • Taxonomy


Conservation Status
IUCN Red List	LC - Least Concern
NatureServe	N5B, N5N - Secure Breeding and Nonbreeding SNRB - Unranked Breeding
Minnesota	not listed

Photo by Earl Bye

Description

The crown and nape has pale longitudinal stripes, not horizontal bars. The underparts are white. The breast, sides, and flanks are heavily barred.

Size

10½″ to 11½″ in length

18″ wingspan

Voice

Similar Species

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.

Habitat

Open wetlands, including cattail and bulrush marshes, sedge meadows, floodplains, bogs, fens, willow and red osier dogwood thickets

Ecology

Migration

March to early May and early September to early November

Nesting

Food

Distribution

Occurrence

Common migrant and breeder

Maps

The Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union All Seasons Species Occurrence Map


Taxonomy
Class	Aves (birds)
Order	Charadriiformes (shorebirds and allies)
Family	Scolopacidae (sandpipers and allies)
Genus	Gallinago (typical snipessnipes)

Subordinate Taxa


Synonyms
Capella gallinago delicata


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Mike Poeppe
I had about a dozen of these just west of Houston, MN today

Earl Bye

Seemed like he was resting on his trip south.

Dan W. Andree

Snipe...


aWebWizard

so tiny - a baby as big as a robin pecking into the dirt


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Common (Wilson's) Snipe
Andree Reno Sanborn

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Capella gallinago

Wilson's Snipe
Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren

Wilson's Snipe
JMC Nature Photos

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aWebWizard

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
6/3/2018


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Wilson's Snipe on Post
WIld Bird Video Productions

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Uploaded on May 26, 2011

License at http://www.paya.com/videos/135194

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.

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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