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Common snipe
The common snipe (''Gallinago gallinago'') is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout northern Europe and northern Asia. It is migratory, with European birds wintering in southern and western Europe and Africa (south to the Equator), and Asian migrants moving to tropical southern Asia. The North American Wilson's snipe was previously considered the same species, and is listed as such in older field guides.
==Description==
Adults are in length with a wingspan and a weight of (up to pre-migration). They have short greenish-grey legs and a very long () straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown with straw-yellow stripes on top and pale underneath. They have a dark stripe through the eye, with light stripes above and below it. The wings are pointed.〔〔
It is the most widespread of several similar snipes. It most closely resembles the Wilson's snipe (''G. delicata'') of North America, which was until recently considered to be a subspecies — ''G. g. delicata'' — of common snipe. They differ in the number of tail feathers, with seven pairs in ''G. gallinago'' and eight pairs in ''G. delicata''; the North American species also has a slightly thinner white trailing edge to the wings (the white is mostly on the tips of the secondaries).〔〔 Both species breed in the Aleutian Islands.〔 It is also very similar to the pin-tailed snipe (''G. stenura'') and Swinhoe's snipe (''G. megala'') of eastern Asia; identification of these species there is complex.〔
There are two subspecies of common snipe, ''G. g. faeroeensis'' in Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland and Orkney (wintering in Britain and Ireland), and ''G. g. gallinago'' in the rest of the Old World.
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