Swinhoe's snipe (English spelling)

Japanese: Swinhoe's snipe(英語表記)Swinhoessnipe
Swinhoe's snipe (English spelling)

...When migrating, they stay in lowland rice fields and marshes, singing "get" as they fly away. The Swinhoe's snipe G. megala breeds in central Siberia and comes to Japan as a migratory bird, where it lives in rice fields and marshes. It is sometimes used as a general term for the genus Swinhoe.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Swinhoe's snipe" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…渡りのときには低地の水田や湿地にいてゲッと鳴いて飛び立つ。チュウジシギG.megala(英名Swinhoe’s snipe)は中部シベリアで繁殖し,日本には旅鳥として渡来し,水田や湿地にいる。 なお,タシギ属の総称として使われることもある。…

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