Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The leading genus of true snipes, of the family Scolopacidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A genus of birds consisting of certain of the snipes.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Scolopacidae.

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  • noun snipes

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Examples

  • Birds include the Adean condor (Vultur gryphus), Rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii), and frailejón (Libanothamnus glossophyllus).

    Santa Marta páramo 2008

  • This coincides with the recent northern expansion of other wet-grassland waders, such as the common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) in the Bolshemelzkaya tundra [14], the black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), and the northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in northern Russia concomitant with a northward expansion of agriculture including sown meadows [15].

    Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges 2009

  • Species that do not cross the river from the west include: Gallinago megala, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, Fringilla coelebs, Luscinia luscinia, Corvus corone cornix.

    East Siberian taiga 2008

  • Several other species of birds found here are limited to marshland habitats on Madagascar, including the slender-billed flufftail (Sarothrura watersi), Madagascar snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla), and Madagascar rail (Rallus madagascariensis).

    Madagascar subhumid forests 2007

  • Other birds of global concern include the great snipe (Gallinago media), which is a Palearctic migrant, the African skimmer (Rynchops flavirostris), an intra-African migrant breeder whose major population is found in the Zambezi basin, and the lesser flamingo (Phoenicopterus minor).

    Zambezian coastal flooded savanna 2007

  • The pintail snipe (_Gallinago stenura_) are invariably the first to appear, but they visit only the eastern parts of Northern India.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • Gallinago gallinago; meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis

    ENS 2009

  • Gallinago delicata 1; Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres

    10,000 Birds 2008

  • Other globally threatened species recorded in this ecoregion include wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus, VU), which has its main breeding populations in the wetlands of Zambia, including the Kafue Flats and the Bangweulu and Busanga swamps, corncrake (Crex crex, VU), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU), great snipe (Gallinago media) and shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex).

    Zambezian flooded grasslands 2008

  • The Netherlands alone has recorded over four hundred and forty species of avifauna, including the threatened Ortolan bunting (Emberiza hortulana), Garganey (Anas querquedula), Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus), Corn bunting (Miliaria calandra), and Spotted crake (Porzana porzana).

    Atlantic mixed forests 2008

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