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A Common Snipe (Gallinago delicata) perches upon its favourite fencepost as it surveys the wetland landscape along the fence row east of Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
22 May, 2018.
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Snipe are always great to see, especially close-up. This one was very obliging on a road-side post, albeit the light was fading. Image taken nr. Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan.
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.
This Snipe pauses from feeding in the shallow water of the South Scrape at Titchfield Haven.
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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.
A sniper is like a genius - it's not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.
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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.
SEEN using its incredibly long straight bill in the soft mud, in the manner of a sewing machine, looking for grubs and invertebrates. This beauty was captured at the Restharrow scrape Sandwich bay Kent.
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