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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Shore Birds Sandpipers and allies Common Snipe Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago faeroeensis)   Range: EU : widespread (range map) info Photo by Svenni and his Icelandic birds    - Fljótshlíð, Iceland  Sizes: 800x611 1152x880 2722x2080 histogram Full size: 2722x2080 next (Common Snipe) last first previous  (Common Sandpiper) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Model E-3 Aperture Value f/10 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Program Flash Unknown: 8 Focal Length 500 mm ISO 500 Metering Mode Multi-Segment Shutter Speed Value 1/640 sec Date/Time Thu 16 Jul 2009 07:18:51 PM EDT Additional Information English Common Snipe Scientific (Gallinago gallinago faeroeensis) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Scolopacidae Family (English) Sandpipers, Snipes Other name(s) Breeding Range EU : widespread Nonbreeding Range Subregions s Europe, AF, OR Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium, Benin,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad, China,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana, Great Britain,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,Iceland,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia, Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Mongolia,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar, Nepal,Netherlands,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palestine, Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan, Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey, Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United States - Hawaii,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Yemen,Zambia, IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range faeroeensis Iceland, Faroe Is., Orkney and Shetland Is. gallinago c and n Europe and Asia IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by (Linnaeus, 1758) German Bekassine French Bécassine des marais Chinese 扇尾沙锥 Japanese タシギ Russian Бекас Spanish Agachadiza común Portugese narceja-comum Bird Data App text   Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes   Breeding Range Codes AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) AN Antarctica AO Atlantic Ocean AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) IO Indian Ocean LA Latin America (Middle and South America) MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama) NA North America (includes the Caribbean) NO Northern oceans OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) PO Pacific Ocean SA South America SO Southern oceans TO Temperate oceans TrO Tropical oceans Worldwide Worldwide IUCN Status Codes EX Extinct EW Extinct in the wild CR Critically Endangered EN Endangered VU Vulnerable NT Near Threatened LC Least Concern DD Data deficient NE Not evaluated PE Probably extinct (informal) PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal) next (Common Snipe) last first previous  (Common Sandpiper)