🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Pin-tailed Snipe live?

Gallinago stenura has 34,011 records in 91 countries and territories, from 1853 to 2026. Most records come from India.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeGallinago

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 13,270
Thailand 3,910
Sri Lanka 3,009
United Arab Emirates 2,518
Taiwan 1,545
Cambodia 1,424
Russia 899
Nepal 723
Oman 696
Indonesia 466
Singapore 448
China 404
Mongolia 384
Bangladesh 307
France 253
Vietnam 220
South Korea 219
Sweden 201
Spain 186
Laos 183
Norway 159
Malaysia 152
Germany 150
Finland 148
Italy 145
United Kingdom 143
Bhutan 133
Poland 127
Greece 123
Ukraine 98
Cocos Islands 88
Hong Kong 77
Israel 75
Myanmar 72
United States 69
Japan 68
Australia 60
Portugal 57
Iceland 54
Romania 50

Showing the top 40 of 91 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.