Frullino

Identificazione

Adults are smaller than common snipe and have relatively shorter bill. Length is 18–25 cm (7.1–9.8 in), wingspan is 30–41 cm (12–16 in) and weight is 33–73 g (1.2–2.6 oz). The body is mottled brown on top and pale underneath. They have a dark stripe through the eye. The wings are pointed and narrow, and yellow back stripes are visible in flight. When seen, the distinctive bobbing movement, as if the bird is on springs, has an almost hypnotic quality.<p>The head pattern of jack snipe differs from common snipe and other species in the genus Gallinago, in that there is no central crown-stripe; instead, there are two pale lateral crown-stripes, which are separated from the supercilium by an area of dark plumage.

Tassonomia

Genere: Lymnocryptes; famiglia: Scolopacidae; ordine: Charadriiformes.

Nome scientifico

Lymnocryptes minimus

Autorità

(Brünnich, 1764)

Ordine

Caradriformi

Famiglia

Scolopacidi

Genere

Lymnocryptes

Areale e habitat

Jack snipes are migratory, spending the non-breeding period in Great Britain, Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal Europe, Africa, and India. The jack snipe is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Their breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows with short vegetation in northern Europe and northern Russia.

Areale riproduttivo

PAL : subarctic to temperate taiga wetlands of n Palearctic: Scandinavia and ne Poland to e Sakha Republic (ec Siberia)

Areale non riproduttivo

OR, AF : temperate to tropical inland wetlands of w, c Eastern Hemisphere mainly n of Equator: Faroe and British Is., w, s Europe, Mediterranean, n, c tropical Africa, Middle East and Indian subcontinent

Migrazione

Migratori completi

Comportamento

Comportamento migratorio: Migratori completi.

Conservazione

Tendenza della popolazione: stabile.

Tendenza della popolazione

stabile