Latham's Snipe
A species of Typical Snipes and Woodcock-snipes Scientific name : Gallinago hardwickii Genus : Typical Snipes and Woodcock-snipes
Latham's Snipe, A species of Typical Snipes and Woodcock-snipes
Botanical name: Gallinago hardwickii
Genus: Typical Snipes and Woodcock-snipes
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Description General Info
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Description
The snipe is 29–33 cm long, with a wingspan of 50–54 cm and weight of 150–230 g. 
Size
33 cm
Feeding Habits
Latham's Snipe is omnivorous, primarily consuming seeds, insects like flies and beetles, earthworms, and various small invertebrates. Utilizing its probing bill to forage, latham's Snipe exhibits a preference for wetland habitats to search for food, showcasing specialized feeding behaviors adapted to such environments.
Habitat
Latham's Snipe predominantly inhabits alpine moorland, grasslands, and agricultural landscapes, such as meadows and pastures, during its breeding season. These environments range from low-lying areas to elevations of up to 1400 meters. This includes regions with young tree plantations, cultivated fields, hillock bogs, and river valleys with sparse herbaceous vegetation. In the non-breeding season, latham's Snipe migrates to a diverse array of freshwater wetlands, preferring habitats with dense vegetation cover for concealment, including bogs, swamps, creek edges, flooded zones, and rice paddies. While migrating, latham's Snipe is occasionally found in highland regions and seldom in coastal or saline wetlands.
Dite type
Insectivorous
General Info
Distribution Area
The snipe breeds mainly in Hokkaidō in northern Japan, with smaller numbers on Honshū, the eastern Russian mainland and, historically, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands. The entire population migrates and spends the non-breeding season principally in eastern Australia, where it is the commonest Gallinago snipe. It has been recorded on migration in Taiwan, the Philippines and New Guinea, and is a rare straggler to New Zealand. The snipe's breeding habitat in Asia includes alpine moorland, grasslands, rough pasture, young tree plantations and cultivated areas. Non-breeding habitat in Australia is shallow freshwater wetlands of various kinds, with bare mud or shallow water for feeding and nearby vegetation cover for shelter.
Species Status
Internationally, Latham's snipe is considered to be a species of Least Concern. In Australia it was previously hunted as a gamebird but is now fully protected. It is listed as "rare" under South Australia's National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972.
Scientific Classification
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