Studies of less familiar birds: 138. Great Snipe
01 December 1965
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T H E G R E A T S N I P E Gallinago media is decidedly larger than the Snipe G. gallinago. Kolthoff (1896) found that it ranged in weight from 140 grams in thin specimens to 213 grams in a very fat one, while Snipe averaged only 120 grams; Niethammer (194...
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