Solitary Snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
About the Solitary Snipe
The solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria) is a stocky wader. It is found in the Palearctic from northeast Iran to Korea and Japan. The solitary snipe is a 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.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 11 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
Listed as recorded in Japan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Common SnipeGallinago gallinagorecording
- Great SnipeGallinago mediarecording
- Imperial SnipeGallinago imperialisrecording
- Noble SnipeGallinago nobilisrecording
- Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenurarecording
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicatarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.