English: Common Snipe       

Russian: Обыкновенный бекас
Mongolian: Шөвгөн хараалж
German: Bekassine
French: Becassine des marais  
Japanese:  タシギ (Ta-shigi) 

Body Length: 25-27 cm
Wing span: 44-47 cm

Breeding visitor
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 4 (occasionally 3)
Egg colour: Olive buffs with dark drown or reddish-brown blotches.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status: Least Concern

Food: Arthropods such as insects and their larvae, annelids and worms.

Habitat: Nests in swamps and bogs with hummock and grasses, flooded wet meadows with short-but sometimes high and dense-vegetation in mountain forests, forest steppe and river valleys with old deciduous and mixed forests. Nests on the ground, concealed in a clump of tall plants partly pulled over to hide the nest.