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Gallinago stenura (Pin-tailed Snipe)

English: Pin-tailed Snipe, Pintail Snipe
Russian: Азиатский бекас
Mongolian: Замбын хараалж
German: Spiessbekassine
French: Becassine a queue pointue
Japanese:  ハリオシギ (Hario-shigi)

Body length: 25-27 cm.

Breeds in N Ural range and E through N Siberia, in open tundra and flat river valleys, winters in S Asia; rare vagrant to E Europe and Middle East.

Identification: Similar to Snipe, but note: very thin and diffuse pale trailing edge to wing (not prominent white as on Snipe); median and lesser coverts form paler panel on upperwing; bill slightly shorter and rather stout, especially at base; rather short-tailed, and toes often project beyond tail-tip in flight; wings rather blunt-tipped, and primaries more brownish (darker on Snipe); primary-coverts narrowly tipped pale (on average more so than on Snipe); underwing darker and uniformly barred (lacking white bands of Snipe); creamy stripes on upperparts not so prominent as on Snipe; and different voice. When seen on ground, main colour of back is brown with much barring and spotting (not so unmarked brown-black as on Snipe), median and lesser coverts are rather barred brown (not predominantly spotted and streaked as on Snipe) and lower scapulars are fringed whitish around tips (not broadly fringed white only on outer webs and ochrous-brown on inner webs as on Snipe) Thin, pin-like outer tail-feathers unique.

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