Snipe

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Snipes | image = Commonsnipe67.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Charadriiformes | familia = Scolopacidae | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision =

Coenocorypha
Gallinago
Lymnocryptes

}}

A Snipe is any of 18 very similar wading bird species, characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage.

They search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills.

Most have distinctive displays, usually given at dawn or dusk.

There are two southern snipe species in the genus Coenocorypha, 15 typical snipe in the genus Gallinago, and the very small Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus.

Species are:

Chatham Snipe, Coenocorypha pusilla
Subantarctic Snipe, Coenocorypha aucklandica
Campbell Island Snipe, Coenocorypha sp.
Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus
Solitary Snipe, Gallinago solitaria
Latham's Snipe, Gallinago hardwickii
Wood Snipe, Gallinago nemoricola
Pintail Snipe, Gallinago stenura
Swinhoe's Snipe, Gallinago megala
African Snipe, Gallinago nigripennis
Madagascar Snipe, Gallinago macrodactyla
Great Snipe, Gallinago media
Common Snipe, Gallinago gallinago
- The American race, G. g. delicata is sometimes considered a separate species, Wilson's Snipe.
South American Snipe, Gallinago paraguaiae
Noble Snipe, Gallinago nobilis
Giant Snipe, Gallinago undulata
Fuegian Snipe, Gallinago stricklandii
Andean Snipe, Gallinago jamesoni
Imperial Snipe, Gallinago imperialis