Description
English: The Eastern Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria = Gallinago solitaria (Solitary Snipe)
Français : The Eastern Solitary Snipe Gallinago solitaria = Gallinago solitaria (Bécassine solitaire)
Date 1921
Source The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon. Volume 2
Author Henrik Grönvold (1858–1940)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallinago_solitaria_1921.jpg

The solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria) is a small stocky wader. It breeds discontinuously in the mountains of eastern Asia, in eastern Russia, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. Many birds are sedentary in the high mountains, or just move downhill in hard weather, but others are migratory, wintering in northeast Iran, Pakistan, northern India and Japan. It is a vagrant to Saudi Arabia, eastern India and Hong Kong. Order: Charadriiformes, Suborder: Scolopaci, Family: Scolopacidae, Genus: Gallinago, Species: Gallinago solitaria Hodgson, 1831.