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Anne Cotton

A migratory snipe widely distributed across Eurasia, from the Azores and Iceland to Chukotka, and from e.g. France to the Arctic tundra. There are two subspecies in Europe: faeroensis breeds in Iceland, Faeroes, Orkney and Shetland and winters in the British Isles; gallinago across the rest of the range, wintering in W and S Europe, the Mediterranean basin and sub-Saharan Africa (and furtherE in the Middle East and Asia).

Season of assessment

B

Population trendDecreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
5270000-7260000,6160000
Red List categoryVU
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
N records N individuals N recoveries
Mapped data*
Total available data
*Mapped data include only distant (>= 50 km) recoveries