Common Snipe
Gallinago gallinago
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyScolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies)
- GenusGallinago (Typical Snipes)
- SpeciesGallinago gallinago (Common Snipe)
The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago, formerly also known as Gallinago cælestis) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World, where it breeds in marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows. It is usually shy and well-camouflaged, foraging in soft mud mainly for insects and earthworms but also some plant material. During courtship, males perform a "winnowing" display; flying high in circles and then taking shallow dives to produce a "drumming" sound by vibrating the tail feathers. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Gauja National Park
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Eurasian Woodcock
Scolopax rusticola
Wood Sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Jack Snipe
Lymnocryptes minimus
Common Greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Eurasian Curlew
Numenius arquata
European Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
Little Tern
Sternula albifrons
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
Common Gull
Larus canus
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Common Snipe at Gauja National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there