Gallinago is a genus of birds in the wader family Scolopacidae, containing 18 species. The name Gallinago was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin...

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows...

Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. The generic name Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen"...

The great snipe (Gallinago media) is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation...

snails or rock snails. Subspecies Vokesimurex gallinago fernandesi (Houart, 1990) Vokesimurex gallinago gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) (synonyms:Murex...

eyes placed high on the head, and cryptic/camouflaging plumage. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes snipe is...

Gallinago kakuki is a prehistoric species of snipe in the family Scolopacidae that was once endemic to the West Indies. Fossils of this species are known...

The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers. It breeds in northern Russia...

are the typical snipes of the genus Gallinago. As with many other sandpiper genera, the lineages that led to Gallinago and Scolopax likely diverged around...

right) and ruddy turnstones (Arenaria interpres) Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) Greenshank (Tringa nebularia) Preening male ruff (Calidris pugnax)...