Chatham Islands snipe
| Chatham Islands snipe | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Scolopacidae |
| Genus: | Coenocorypha |
| Species: | C. pusilla |
| Binomial name | |
| Coenocorypha pusilla (Buller, 1869) | |
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The Chatham Islands snipe (Coenocorypha pusilla), also known as the Chatham snipe, 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.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland.
The Chatham Islands snipe feeds by probing into the ground in search of worms, amphipods, insects and larvae.