NPSpecies

Ffirst park record 11/05/2002 (as Gallinago gallinago - common snipe); Data Source: observation record (LEWI RM files). Species has split: Gallinago delicata (Wilson's snipe) is now the American species. Gallinago gallinago is now the old world species. 43rd Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds.

formerly classified as a subspecies of Common Snipe (G. gallinago); now recognized as a separate species (Banks et al. 2002); Data Source: Marshall, D.B., M.G. Hunter, and A.L. Contreras, Eds. 2006. Birds of Oregon: A General Reference. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.

uncommon and local in n. Clatsop County; Data Source: Birds of Youngs Bay, Oregon. Table in Lev et al. Youngs Bay Bottomlands Conservation and Restoration Plan. National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, U S Fish & Wildlife Service, December 2006. Marshall, D.B., M.G. Hunter, and A.L. Contreras, Eds. 2006. Birds of Oregon: A General Reference. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR.

Park Species Data Source: Marshall, D.B., M.G. Hunter, and A.L. Contreras, Eds. 2006. Birds of Oregon: A General Reference. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, OR. Reported in Columbia River estuary by members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Park Species Data Source: Ek, David. Birds at Fort Clatsop National Memorial United States of America, 04/12/1999.