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A Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) perched upon fence post along a pasture on the south end of Beaverhill Lake east of Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
4 June, 2017.
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North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 2016.
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The wonderful plumage of the Snipe.Always a joy to see them probing away.
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I believe this is a Wilson's Snipe. Found in Wyoming south of Laramie. A shy bird but one I have never captured before.
There is a camper's gag sending new young campers to go looking for a snipe.. I've been looking for the last 50 years.- I guess they do exist.
Sometimes a Snipe on a fence post will let you drive very slowly until you are directly opposite. The lighting was good on the driver's side and this one gave me all kinds of chances to shoot, chimp. and change my settings. I left it still perched.
Beaver County, Alberta.
Many birds like this Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) will sit on elevated perches like this fence post to get a better view of the surrounding habitat for any potential intruders or danger. This bird was roosting along the edge of a shallow wetland east of Hanna, Alberta, Canada.
31 May, 2011.
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Snipe....
Snipes can be found in various types of wet marshy settings including bogs, swamps, wet meadows, and along rivers, coast lines, and ponds. Snipes avoid settling in areas with dense vegetation, but rather seek marshy areas with patchy cover to hide from predators.
Painting of a kneeling hunter shooting at a group of birds flying above a marsh
Depiction of a snipe hunter, by A. B. Frost
Camouflage may enable snipes to remain undetected by hunters in marshland. The bird is also highly alert and startled easily, rarely staying long in the open. If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty wing-shooting due to the bird's erratic flight pattern.
The difficulties involved around hunting snipes gave rise to the military term sniper, which originally meant an expert hunter highly skilled in marksmanship and camouflaging, but later evolved to mean a sharpshooter or a shooter who makes potshots from concealment.
Snipe are medium sized, skulking wading birds with short legs and long straight bills. Both sexes are mottled brown above, with paler buff stripes on the back, dark streaks on the chest and pale under parts. They are widespread as a breeding species in the UK, with particularly high densities on northern uplands but lower numbers in southern lowlands (especially south west England). In winter, birds from northern Europe join resident birds.
The UK population of snipe has undergone moderate declines overall in the past twenty-five years, with particularly steep declines in lowland wet grassland, making it an Amber List species.
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) calling from an elevated platform (fencepost) on the edge of a small prairie wetland west of the Great Sandhills south of Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.
22 May, 2018.
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A Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) rests upon a fencepost along the edge of wetland on the prairie landscape near Hanna, Alberta, Canada.
31 May, 2011.
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Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) WWT Slimbridge. Frustrating to only get distant shots but better than getting none.
Wilson’s Snipe look so stocky thanks in part to the extra-large pectoral (breast) muscles that make up nearly a quarter of the bird’s weight—the highest percent of all shorebirds. Thanks to their massive flight muscles this chunky sandpiper can reach speeds estimated at 60 miles an hour.
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If you encounter a Snipe while walking on a trail through a marsh, they will fly away from a distance before you are in position for a shot or wait until you are very close to their hiding place and fly up in front of you giving no opportunity to react quickly enough.
If you encounter one on a fence post while driving past a marsh, they will often just stay there and allow a very close approach.
Strathcona County, Alberta. (RR 210 for my local friends)