Gallinago megala, Swinhoe, 1861

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646021

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scientific name

Gallinago megala
status

 

SWINHOE’S SNIPE Gallinago megala View in CoL #

Range Biak, Supiori.

Status Palearctic migrant. Fairly common southbound passage migrant and winter resident in New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016) . Two collected by Ripley at Korrido in late November 1937 ( Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939). On 10 November 2017, A. Walker (eBird checklist S46415319) saw what was probably this species at the tsunami swamp. However, given that the very similar Latham’s Snipe G. hardwickii ( Menkhorst et al. 2017) is also recorded on passage in New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016) , the latter record must be considered unconfirmed.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Gallinago

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