🐦Common snipe
Ej att förväxla med dvärgbeckasin, som heter ”enkeltbekkasin” på danska. Enkelbeckasin (Gallinago gallinago) är en vadarfågel inom familjen snäppor som häckar över stora delar av norra Palearktis och absoluta merparten är flyttfåglar. Den är varmt brunspräcklig med vit undersida och har en lång rak näbb som den använder för att finna föda i lerbottnar. Under början av häckningsperioden genomför den en spelflykt som bland annat innebär störtdykningar som får de utbredda stjärtfjädrarna att vibrera vilket åstadkommer ett brummande mekaniskt läte. Enkelbeckasinen minskar i antal globalt sett, men beståndet anses ändå vara livskraftigt.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.
- 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
Everything we know about the Common snipe
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass0.11 kgAVONETOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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 length0.05 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Wing length0.13 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Beak length0.07 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Tarsus length0.03 mAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan18 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Gestation19 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 4AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
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Trophic levelCarnivoreAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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HabitatWetlandAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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LifestyleTerrestrialAVONETDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.1 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAves
- ›orderCharadriiformes
- ›familyScolopacidae
- ›genusGallinago
- ›speciesGallinago gallinago
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyScolopacidae
All 10 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- orderSauria
- classBirds · Aves
- familyScolopacidae
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