[mou] Wilson's Snipe? RQD? >> Common vs. Wilson's Snipe?

[MARTELL, Mark]

The AOU Checklist of North American birds (the official keeper of these =
things) shows both the Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) and the =
Common Snipe (Gallinag gallinago). Further digging shows that the AOU =
decided in 2002 that the Wilson's Snipe was a different species than the =
Common Snipe (which occurs in the old world as well) and split it off. =
Thus some of the older reference's may not have noted the change.

Mark Martell
Director of Bird Conservation
Audubon Minnesota
2357 Ventura Drive #106
St. Paul, MN 55125
651-739-9332
651-731-1330 (FAX)


-----Original Message-----
From: mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu [mailto:mou-net-admin@cbs.umn.edu]On
Behalf Of J Ferguson
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:22 PM
To: bice0004@umn.edu; mou-net@cbs.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [mou] Wilson's Snipe? RQD? >> Common vs. Wilson's Snipe?


Sorry, Andy...no answer, but I have similar question for =
someone/everyone. =20
My Nat'l Geo Birds 3rd ed. mentions the "Common Snipe" but no Wilson's.  =
The=20
Sibley Eastern mentions the "Wilson's Snipe", as does the MOU MN birds=20
checklist, but no Common.  The Latin species names are different =
(according=20
to the two books), though the genus is the same.  Are these really the =
same=20
bird?  Subspecies?  Do we only get one kind of snipe in MN?  That is, is =
a=20
snipe (that would be found in MN) just a snipe?

Thanks!

Jonathan Ferguson

>From: "Andrew D. Bicek" <bice0004@umn.edu>
>To: <mou-net@cbs.umn.edu>
>Subject: [mou] Wilson's Snipe? RQD?
>Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 10:05:19 -0500
>
>I was just entering data in the new online field trip report entry =
form,=20
>and
>I couldn't find the listing for wilson's snipe.  I looked under =
regular, it
>wasn't there, I looked under rare, and it wasn't there.  I found it =
under
>all and it needed a request for documentation.  What's the deal here? =20
>Snipe
>are common, why do we need to formally write them up?
>
>
>
>Funny too, is that for Wright county, where I saw the snipe yesterday, =
it=20
>is
>listed as common on the MOU Wright cty checklist.
>
>
>
>Is this perhaps because it recently changed names and needs to be=20
>documented
>under the new name?
>
>
>
>Andy Bicek
>


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