The Pin-tailed Snipe is a wetland bird that moves between breeding and wintering grounds.
Its back has buff and dark stripes, and the outer tail feathers are narrow and pin-like.
It probes wet ground with its bill for small invertebrates and other prey.
It breeds in damp river-valley meadows, mossy swamps and shrub tundra, making a shallow nest depression concealed in dense vegetation.
It eats mollusks, adult and larval insects and earthworms, with occasional crustaceans, seeds and other plant material. In winter it forages on muddy wetland and stream margins, including flooded paddies and damp grassland.
Juveniles have buff-edged wing coverts and narrower upperpart fringes. The underwing is fully barred, and the short tail allows the toes to project well beyond it in flight.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.