Great Snipe

Scolopacidae: Sandpipers, Snipes

Great Snipe Gallinago media (0, 6)

STATUS: Very rare. BBRC.

1). 1958 St Agnes, 26th October.

(G. A. Pyman and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 54: 176).

2). 1962 St Agnes, adult, 27th and 30th April.

(D. D. Harber & C. M. Swaine and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 56: 399; J. E. Beckerlegge, A. G. Parsons & N. R. Phillips, Cornwall Bird Watching & Preservation Society Report 1962: 55).

3). 1970 St Mary's, 6th October.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 64: 350).

4). 1973 Horse Point, St Agnes, 13th October.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 68: 335).

5). 1973 St Martin's, 21st October.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 67: 321).

6). 2020 Shipman Down, Bryher, 1CY+, 20th September.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 582).