Sandpipers, Snipes
African Snipe
Gallinago nigripennis
The African Snipe (Gallinago nigripennis) is a 112 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Sandpipers, Snipes
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 112 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 14
Recorded in South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, eSwatini, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Rwanda.
Where to see it: Marievale Bird Sanctuary (South Africa); Macaneta · Wetland, dune forests and coast (Mozambique); Chobe River · boat trip (Botswana) (Botswana); Rietvlei NR (South Africa); Lake Ziway · southwestern shore (Ethiopia).
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