Solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)

The solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria) is a small stocky wader of the family Scolopacidae. 
The bird is found in the Palearctic from northeast Iran to Korea and Japan.
The bird is sedentary in some regions and migratory in some other regions. The wintering grounds: northeastern Iran, Pakistan, northern India, Bangladesh, eastern China, Korea, Japan and Sakhalin...


The term Charadriiformes comes from New Latin, combining the Greek word kharadrios ("a bird of river valleys" or "a bird of ravines") and the Latin suffix -formes meaning "forms" or "shaped like". Therefore, Charadriiformes translates to "birds shaped like or resembling the charadrius," which is a type of plover or stone curlew historically found in dry river beds or ravines. 

The word Scolopacidae is New Latin, derived from the genus name Scolopax (Latin for "snipe" or "woodcock") and the common zoological suffix for family names, -idae.

The genus name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".

Solitaria comes from Latin, meaning "solitary," "alone," or "without a companion," derived from solitarius (the feminine form), stemming from solus ("alone").