Pin-tailed Snipe

The pin-tailed snipe is 25–27 centimetres long and similar to the longer-billed and longer-tailed common snipe. Adults have short greenish-grey legs and a long straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown above with cream lines down the back, and pale underneath with a streaked buff breast and white belly. There is a dark stripe through the eye with light stripes above and below it. The sexes are similar. The wings are less pointed than the common snipe's and lack that species' white trailing edge. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds in damp marshes and tundra in Arctic and boreal Russia and spends the non-breeding season in southern Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia, where it is the commonest migrant snipe in southern India, Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. In winter it uses a variety of wetlands, often with common snipe, but may also be found in drier habitats. It nests well hidden on the ground and forages in mud or soft soil, probing or picking up food by sight. (Wikipedia, general species account)