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Alternative name: Snares Island Snipe
- Coenocorypha huegeli
Identification
Distribution
Endemic to Snares Islands (Northeast, Broughton and Alert Stack), New Zealand.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
It was formerly considered conspecific with Subantarctic Snipe.
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2010. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2010. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/Clements%206.5.xls/view
- Dickinson, EC, ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed., with updates to October 2008 (Corrigenda 8). Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0691117010
- Sibley, CG and BL Monroe. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2010. IOC World Bird Names (version 2.7). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Birdforum thread discussing a genetic analysis of the currently living members of this genus, supporting treating Snares Island Snipe as species
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Snares Snipe. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 26 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Snares_Snipe
