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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.
Identifying Common Snipe and Jack Snipe. A stocky brown bird rockets up from just in front of your feet, but is it a Common Snipe, or its rarer relative Jack Snipe? Let us help you tell the two apart.
Basic facts about Common Snipe: lifespan, distribution and habitat map, lifestyle and social behavior, mating habits, diet and nutrition, population size and status.
What do snipes look like? Snipes have dark brown upperparts marked with pale stripes and brown, chestnut and black streaks. Their wing coverts are dark brown with white spots and fringing.
Snipe are brown, with an intricate pattern of black and gold bars, and a stripy brown and gold head. They have short, greyish-green legs and a very long, straight bill. The snipe is smaller than the similar-looking woodcock and is a bird of grasslands and moorlands, rather than woodlands.
Snipe are medium sized, skulking wading birds with short legs and long straight bills. Find out more snipe facts including their habitat, food and distribution
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Snipes are enchanting medium-sized waders, famed for their long, straight bills and short legs. They boast a beautiful mottled brown plumage, adorned with buff stripes on their backs and streaks on their chests, complemented by lighter underparts.
