Great Snipe

Gallinago media

IUCN: Near Threatened

Taxonomy

Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Gallinago
eBird Code
gresni1

Distribution

breeds meadows from northern Scandinavia and eastern Poland eastward to Yenisei River (western Siberia); winters wet grassland of tropical and subtropical sub-Saharan Africa

Vocalizations

Veljo Runnel · CC_BY_4_0

Data Sources

Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.

Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.