Swinhoe's Snipe

Swinhoe's snipe is a medium-sized, long-billed, migratory wader, 27–29 centimetres long with a wingspan of 38–44 centimetres and a weight of about 120 grams. It is identifiable as a Gallinago snipe by its cryptically patterned black, brown, buff and white plumage, but is not easily distinguished from Latham's and pin-tailed snipe in the field. It is also called the forest snipe or Chinese snipe, and the name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe, who described it in 1861. (Wikipedia, general species account)

It breeds mainly in central and southern Siberia and Mongolia. The entire population migrates and spends the non-breeding season principally in eastern and southern India, Sri Lanka, southeastern China, Southeast Asia and New Guinea. It has been recorded on migration in eastern China and occasionally Japan, with records in Australia mainly from the Top End of the Northern Territory and northwestern Western Australia. (Wikipedia, general species account)