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page on this snipe. Update: April 07, 2004: added
this page of new shots from today of the presumed gallinago:
Note the shape, width, and pattern of the outermost retrix:
Note that in Siberian birds, the width of the white
tipping on the secondaries is very variable, with a number of
birds having much narrower tips than that normally seen in European
birds; also the flanks often lack the brown wash seen on European
birds. Even within the western European populations, birds with
narrow white secondary tips can be found; note in these specimens
from the BMNH in Tring, England (collected in Gibraltar, left
and England, right) the very narrow white tipping to the secondaries:
Below, the Fort Worth bird is the second and third images,
placed in-between the adjusted images of Common Snipe from the
2nd page:-
