Broad-billed Sandpiper vs Giant Snipe

Calidris falcinellus verglichen mit Gallinago undulata

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Merkmal Broad-billed Sandpiper Giant Snipe
Wissenschaftlicher Name Calidris falcinellus Gallinago undulata
Ordnung Charadriiformes Charadriiformes
Familie Scolopacidae Scolopacidae
Erhaltungsstatus Vulnerable Least Concern
Länge — —
Flügelspannweite 19,8 cm (7.8 in) 31,0 cm (12.2 in)
Gewicht 48,0 g (1.69 oz) 327,5 g (11.55 oz)
Ernährung -- --
Gelegegröße 3-4 2-4
Population Trend — —

Habitat Comparison

Gemeinsame Lebensräume

Broad-billed Sandpiper only

Giant Snipe only

Erhaltungsstatus

Vulnerable

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Least Concern

Giant Snipe

About These Birds

Broad-billed Sandpiper

Broad-billed Sandpiper: 16–18 cm, small sandpiper with a distinctive kinked drooping bill-tip, split supercilium, and chestnut-and-black breeding plumage. Breeds on boreal bogs of Scandinavia and Siberia; winters on mudflats of East Africa, South Asia, and Australia. NT. Feeds by probing soft mud. Long-distance migrant.

Giant Snipe

Giant Snipe: 36–40 cm, the world's largest snipe with an exceptionally long bill, rich brown plumage, and heavily barred underparts. Resident in swampy grassland and marshy terrain of Venezuela, Trinidad, Colombia, Brazil, and adjacent South America. Feeds on invertebrates by deep probing. Secretive and crepuscular. Poorly known.

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