#0615 · 🐦 birds
Common Snipe
🇳🇱 Watersnip ·Gallinago gallinago
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what is it?
The common snipe ( Gallinago gallinago ) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The scientific name gallinago is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina , "hen" and the suffix -ago , "resembling".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 582 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 30,016 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs only about 128 g.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Snipe
- Nederlands
- Watersnip
- scientific name
- Gallinago gallinago
- class
- Aves
- order
- Charadriiformes
- family
- Scolopacidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 582
- sightings in Europe
- 18,883
- sightings worldwide
- 30,016
- GBIF records in NL
- 257,730
- weight
- 128 g
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 318836, Wikidata Q25692, GBIF 2481819, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.