Birds Thru My Eyes : MALAYSIA: Pin-tailed Snipe / Swinhoe's Snipe

Saturday 4 October 2014

Order - Charadriiformes

Family - Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)
"Swintailed" Snipe

Swinhoe's Snipe Pin-tailed Snipe

Gallinago megala Gallinago stenura
大沙锥 (dà shā-zhuī) / 针尾沙锥 (zhēn-wěi shā-zhuī)
中地鹬 (zhōng dì-yù)

1) Swinhoe's Snipe :

Malay : Berkik Siberia Selatan

Japanese : チュウジシギ (chū ji-shigi)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 中地鷸 / 中地鴫

Size : 27–29 cm; 82–164 g; Wingspan 38–50 cm

(LC : Least Concern)

Subspecies and Distribution

Monotypic. (Swinhoe, 1861, between Takoo and Beijing, north China)

– CS Siberia and N Mongolia; Amurland and Ussuriland. Winters from S & E India to E & S China and Taiwan, and S through Malay Peninsula, Philippines and Indonesia to New Guinea, Melanesia (E to Guadalcanal) and N Australia.

2) Pin-tailed Snipe :

Malay : Berkik Ekor Jarum

Japanese : ハリオシギ (hari-o shigi)

Kanji 日語漢字 : 針尾鷸 / 針尾鴫

Size : 25–27 cm; 84–182 g; Wingspan 44–47 cm

(LC : Least Concern)

Subspecies and Distribution

Monotypic. (Bonaparte, 1831, Sunda Islands)

– NC & E Russia from Ural Mts through Siberia and Transbaikalia to Sea of Okhotsk. Winters from Indian Subcontinent and Maldives through Indochina to SE China and Taiwan, and S to Philippines and W Lesser Sundas; also found irregularly in small numbers in Saudi Arabia, E Africa and Aldabra Is, and NW Australia.