Bird / Gallinago gallinago
Common Snipe
Lowest risk
Migratory
The common snipe is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The scientific name gallinago is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".
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