Gallinago gallinago
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In 3 days ~60% in a week ~80%
The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago, formerly also known as Gallinago cælestis) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World, where it breeds in marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows. It is usually shy and well-camouflaged, foraging in soft mud mainly for insects and earthworms but also some plant material. During courtship, males perform a "winnowing" display; flying high in circles and then taking shallow dives to produce a "drumming" sound by vibrating the tail feathers.
The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout the Palearctic. In the north, the distribution limit extends from Iceland over the north of the British Isles and northern Fennoscandia, where it occurs at around 70°N, as well as through European Russia and Siberia. Here it is mostly on the northern edge of the Taiga zone at 71°N, but reaches 74°N on the east coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. In the east it extends to Anadyr, Kamchatka, Bering Island and the Kuril Islands, The southern boundary of the distribution area in Europe runs through northern Portugal, central France, northern Italy, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, with populations in the west being only very... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Quanzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 2 | Naha | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 3 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 4 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 5 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 6 | Riyadh | 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | |
| 7 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 8 | Chattogram | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 9 | Indore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Rabat | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Snipe sighting in Keoladeo National Park on a given day, based on 556 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 105th most-seen of the 278 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and March
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Common Snipe in Keoladeo National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June to September, the lowest months. Those are among Keoladeo National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 240 mm in July.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Snipe sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 35
Of the 35 parks where we can rate Common Snipe sightings, Keoladeo National Park ranks 6th at about 20%. The best odds are in Biebrza National Park (Poland, about 50%), Vatnajokull National Park (Iceland, about 50%) and Hortobágy National Park (Hungary, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Scolopacidae
The closest relatives of the Common Snipe that you can see in Keoladeo National Park (family Scolopacidae, Sandpipers and Allies) are Wood Sandpiper (about 50%), Green Sandpiper (about 40%) and Common Sandpiper (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Snipe is recorded against all the birds logged in Keoladeo National Park (556 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
