Species profile
Forbes's Snipe
Coenocorypha chathamica
Quick answer
formerly Chatham Islands; extinct
- Scientific name
- Coenocorypha chathamica
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Coenocorypha
Recording Forbes's Snipe in your journal
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