Sandpiper
Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago )
The Waders ( Scolopacidae ) are a large family of the order Charadriiformes ( Charadriiformes ). Apart from the typical genera beach runners and Redshank Tringa It also contains and many more. They are widespread in the northern hemisphere.
Description
Waders are small to medium-sized wading birds that live on the banks, shores and in wetlands. A few species are adapted to drier habitats. Features are generally relatively long legs and often mid-length to long beaks, looking with which the birds in the Wadden, mud, seaweed or under rocks for food. They feed on worms, mollusks, crustaceans, small fish, insects and insect larvae, and partly also of plants.
Many species breed in open areas and in the Arctic tundra of northern Europe and Siberia, and the rest of Europe only to be found during migration and in winter in dense flocks on coasts and wetlands.
The nest is a flat bottom bowl in most species. The amount of Nistmaterials can vary greatly even within a species, depending on the conditions at the nesting site. You are in some species openly and freely on the floor or can be hidden in the vegetation. The Nistmulde surrounding planting is contracted to disguise above the nest occasionally. From this breeding behavior of the Green Sandpiper and occasionally the wood sandpiper differs. They often use old nests of tree- nesting species.
The nest of the Waders usually consist of four gyro- shaped to oval eggs. These are well camouflaged by their mottling. The Dunenjungen often have a marking on the back, which consists of a dark middle stripe, which can be divided by a lighter band. On both sides of the body are usually also several dark stripes. The young leave the nest very quickly and autonomously search for food, where they are supervised and warmed by one or both parents. In most cases, both parents birds are involved. Among the exceptions, in which only the female looks after the eggs and the young birds, count the ruff. The water bike the usual roles are reversed. For them, only the males incubate the eggs and then lead the boys.
Many Waders species wintering in Africa, some in Southern Europe or Asia. Partial amazing train services are known, for example, when red knot. Some species migrate at night, and give this typical calls from.
As a " snipe " refers to various representatives of the family of the Waders. The " Snipe " the hunter is the woodcock ( Scolopax rusticola ).
Species
- Actual woodcock ( Scolopax ) Woodcock ( S. rusticola )
- Amamiwaldschnepfe (P. mira )
- New Guinea Woodcock ( S. rosenbergii )
- Malays snipe ( S. saturata )
- Celebeswaldschnepfe (p. celebensis )
- Philippines Woodcock (p. bukidnonensis )
- Obischnepfe (p. rochussenii )
- Canada snipe ( S. minor)
- New Zealand snipe ( Coenocorypha ) Chathamschnepfe (C. pusilla )
- Aucklandschnepfe (C. aucklandica )
- Snares Snipe (C. hilly )
- North Island Snipe (C. barrierensis ), extinct
- South Island Snipe (C. iredalei ), extinct
- Forbes Woodcock, C. chathamica extinct,
- Fiji Woodcock, C. miratropica extinct,
- New Caledonia - snipe, Coenocorypha sp. ( undescribed extinct species of New Caledonia)
- Norfolk snipe, Coenocorypha sp. ( undescribed extinct species from Norfolk Island )
- Lymnocryptes Snipe (L. minimus )
- Common Snipe ( Gallinago ) Einsiedlerbekassine (G. solitaria )
- Japanbekassine (G. hardwickii )
- Nepalbekassine (G. nemoricola )
- Spießbekassine (G. stenura )
- Waldbekassine (G. megala )
- African Snipe ( G. nigripennis )
- Madagaskarbekassine (G. macrodactyla )
- Great Snipe (G. media)
- Snipe ( G. gallinago )
- Wilson's Snipe ( G. delicata )
- Azarabekassine (G. paraguaiae )
- Nobelbekassine (G. nobilis)
- Riesenbekassine (G. undulata )
- Kordillerenbekassine (G. stricklandii )
- Punabekassine (G. andina )
- Andenbekassine (G. jamesoni )
- Kaiserbekassine (G. imperialis )
- Dowitcher ( Limnodromus ) Small Dowitcher (L. griseus )
- Big Dowitcher (L. scolopaceus )
- Asiatic Dowitcher (L. semipalmatus )
- Black-tailed Godwit (L. limosa )
- Hudsonschnepfe (L. haemastica )
- Bar-tailed Godwit (L. lapponica )
- American Bar-tailed Godwit (L. fedoa )
- Curlews (Numenius ) Dwarf curlew ( N. minutus)
- Eskimo curlew ( N. borealis ), probably extinct
- Whimbrel ( N. phaeopus )
- Bristle curlew ( N. tahitiensis )
- Slender-billed Curlew ( N. tenuirostris ), possibly extinct
- Curlew ( N. arquata )
- American curlew or rust curlew ( N. americanus)
- Isabellbrachvogel ( N. madagascariensis )
- Bartramia Prairie Runner (B. longicauda )
- Redshank (Tringa ) Spotted Redshank ( T. erythropus )
- Redshank ( T. totanus )
- Marsh Sandpiper ( T. stagnatilis )
- Greenshank ( T. nebularia )
- Tüpfelgrünschenkel ( T. guttifer )
- Greater Yellowlegs ( T. melanoleuca )
- Lesser Yellowlegs ( T. flavipes )
- Solitary Sandpipers ( T. solitaria )
- Green Sandpiper ( T. ochropus )
- Wood Sandpiper ( T. glareola )
- Willet ( T. semipalmata )
- Xenu Terek Sandpiper (X. cinereus )
- Actitis Sandpiper ( A. hypoleucos )
- Spotted Sandpiper (A. macularius )
- Heteroscelus Graytail Sandpipers (H. brevipes )
- Migrant sandpipers (H. incanus )
- Prosobonia White South Sea rotor wing ( P. ellisi ), extinct
- South Sea Runner ( P. cancellata )
- Society runners ( P. leucoptera ), extinct
- Ruddy Turnstone ( Arenaria ) Ruddy Turnstone (A. interpres )
- Schwarzkopf Ruddy Turnstone (A. melanocephala )
- Aphriza Gischtläufer (A. virgata )
- Beach runners (Calidris ) Big Red Knot (C. tenuirostris )
- Red Knot (C. canutus )
- Sanderling (C. alba)
- Sandy beach runners (C. pusilla )
- Beach mountain runner (C. mauri )
- Dwarf beach runners (C. minuta )
- Rotkehlstrandläufer (C. ruficollis )
- Temminck's Stint ( C.temminckii )
- Long toes beach runners (C. subminuta )
- Meadow beach runners (C. minutilla )
- Weißbürzelstrandläufer (C. fuscicollis )
- Bairdstrandläufer (C. bairdii )
- Pectoral beach runners (C. melanotos )
- Spitzschwanz beach runners (C. acuminata )
- Sea beach runners (C. maritima )
- Bering beach runners (C. ptilocnemis )
- Alpine beach runners (C. alpina)
- Crescent beach runners (C. ferruginea )
- Bind beach runners (C. himantopus )
- Eurynorhynchus Beach bucket rotor (E. pygmeus )
- Limicola Waders (L. falcinellus )
- Tryngites Grass runners ( T. subruficollis )
- Ruff ( P. pugnax )
- Steganopus Wilson 's Phalarope (P. tricolor)
- Phalarope ( Phalaropus ) Red-necked phalarope ( P. lobatus )
- Red Phalarope ( P. fulicarius )
Varia
Colloquially, the term " snipe " for a know-it woman or as a term for a prostitute is needed.
Use
Previously snipe were massively trapped and eaten in Europe. From a contemporary cookbook: