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Another snipe photo from a very cold morning last month, I'm not sure whether this bird is just about to take a step or whether it's got cold feet!
Common Snipe / Bekassine (Gallinago gallinago)
A Lifer for me - was pleased to see a threesome feeding at a local wetland area. I've been frequenting this site since 2014 and have never seen one there before, which is great news for the diversity of the area. Species #101 for me @ Remerschen in Luxembourg.
A Snipe Fly that I came across earlier today. I'm not sure of the sub-species, but it was quite small (around 15mm long)
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It's been a good year for snipe locally, helped no doubt by very good habitat management on the scrape at Summer Leys. I had 44 at one point across the scrape and occasionally one or two would come close. The majority have disappeared off to breeding grounds now though, replaced by migrant waders
Image taken from a hide in Norfolk and pleasantly surprised how close the bird came.
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Another photo of the snipe at Summer Leys from last week this time showing more of the detailed plumage on it's back
This snipe at Ridgefield NWR was hiding by standing still -- just posed in front of the mucky-brush they normally hide in.
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The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The scientific name gallinago is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling".
The breeding habitat is marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout northern Europe and northern Asia. It is migratory, with European birds wintering in southern and western Europe and Africa (south to the Equator), and Asian migrants moving to tropical southern Asia. The North American Wilson's snipe was previously considered the same species, and is listed as such in older field guides.
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The winning Wilson's Snipe strutting after a confrontation with another snipe at Bombay Hook NWR in Delaware.
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Wilson's Snipe hiding in the grass at Bombay Hook NWR. I was pleased to find my first snipe of 2021.
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You hear them all over Iceland as they pop up with sharp criesand they circle their territory with "drumming" sounds. Once they begin their descent, their downward swoop causes this "drumming" sound as the wind vibrates their outer tail feathers. They are difficult to see on the ground as they are secretive and shy. Early this morning, my luck changed as this sleepy snipe stayed long enough for this image. The background is a field of yellow buttercups.
When they’re not flying, these birds often perch and call from fence posts and other exposed spots. In migration and during winter, carefully scan the edges of muddy ponds, ephemeral pools of rainwater, ditches, small streams, and other such places.
Well camouflaged and took a while to find it.
Summer visitor to Ireland from west Europe and west Africa, winter visitor from Faeroe Islands, Iceland and northern Scotland.
A wader but not easily seen, unless flushed out of marshy vegetation, when it typically runs away in a frantic zig zag fashion. The disproportionately long, straight bill is easily visible in flight. If you are lucky enough to see one standing partially or wholly out in the open (usually at the edge of reeds), you will make out the series of dark brown, pale buff and black stripes and bars on the head and body - this produces a good camouflage effect.
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424) Greater Painted Snipe
Greater painted-snipe, Rostratula benghalensis, Meragi
Beautiful snipe that can usually found close to the fringes of reed beds along shorelines of marshes, swamps, ponds and streams. They feed on insects, crustaceans, molluscs and seeds.
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Scientific name: Gallinago gallinago.
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. Info: RSPB.
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it's nearly the end of March and the snipe are still at Summer Leys. I had suggested the other week that the growing reeds in front of the hide were making photography tricky as they were obscuring the snipe. Turns out I was wrong as the snipe have now decided to stand in places where there are fewer reeds making photographing these birds almost easier than it was during the winter!