Rajni Trivedi*

Satellite, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

*Corresponding Author: Rajni Trivedi, Satellite, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Received: June 07, 2024; Published: October 30, 2024

Abstract

I am representing an article on large sized vulnerable Wood snipe G. nemoricola. I conducted extensive observations on (Figure 1 and 2) sited two birds during winter. 14 birds were sighted and photographed during diversity and abundance of snipe. Most of birds were adults, maybe only two or three birds were juvenile and most of them were blackish-brown, black, rufous brown plumage.

Introduction: (Figure 1,2) In this article, I am going to represent Wood snipe. The bird wood snipe G. nemoricola is endangered species, belong to vulnerable category. Listed in IUCN Red List [1,2]. of threatened birds of world, also mentioned in “Updates in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Birds of India”. It is one of the large size snipes, then common, pintail and swinhoe’s snipes. Very similar or resembles of solitary snipe-3. Head, mentle pattern and spotless or fringeless wing covert, diagnostics differences disconnect it in separate, distinguish typical species than other snipes, during winter migration. Birds are found in Maharashtra and South India [5-7]. One observation record from Mahendragiri RF., Kanyakumari dist. Tamil Nadu by K. Chudankata. In summer found in North-East India - from Himachal, Nepal, Tibet, Sikkim- 4, 8, 13. One observation record from Bhutan by James A. Eaton and Andrew G. Duff (Birding Asia). Another 8 birds were counted in Langtang National park by Bird Conservation of Nepal, 2004, during summer.

 Keywords: Wintering; Wood Snipe; Gallinago Nemoricola; Nal Sarovar; Birds Sanctuary

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Citation

Citation: Rajni Trivedi. “Important Wintering Status of Wood Snipe Gallinago Nemoricola from Nal Sarovar Birds Sanctuary, Gujarat, India". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 6.11 (2024): 48-52.

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Copyright: © 2024 Rajni Trivedi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.