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Chatham snipe
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The Chatham snipe or Chatham Island snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla) is a species of wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is endemic to the Chatham Islands of New Zealand, and is only found on a few islands in the south of the Chatham Islands group.[2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Charadriiformes |
Family: | Scolopacidae |
Genus: | Coenocorypha |
Species: | C. pusilla |
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Coenocorypha pusilla (Buller, 1869) | |
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Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland.
Chatham snipe feed by probing into the ground in search of worms, amphipods, insects and larvae.[2]