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SpeciesCharadriiformesScolopacidae
Birds

🐦Common snipe

Gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus, 1758)

Средната бекасина (Gallinago gallinago) е птица от семейство Бекасови (Scolopacidae). Среща се и в България.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/550th of your weight
Also called
Gallinago gallinago
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.11 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
18 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common snipe

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.11 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Male111 kgWikidataQ25692
  • Female128 kgWikidataQ25692

Figures vary

  • 0.13 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.13 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
18 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
19 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 4
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Wetland
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Terrestrial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common snipe yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyScolopacidae
  6. ›genusGallinago
  7. ›speciesGallinago gallinago
Full lineage
  1. superclassTetrapoda
  2. orderSauria
  3. classBirds · Aves
  4. familyScolopacidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. familyScolopacidae
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Closest relative on this site
🐦 Eurasian Woodcock — last shared an ancestor ≈ 25 million years ago.
In other languages
Gallinago gallinago (nl), Bécassine des marais (fr), 扇尾沙锥 (zh), bekas kszyk (pl), Gallinago gallinago (es), sárszalonka (hu) … and 25 more languages
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