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Common snipes have short greenish-grey legs and a very long (5.5-7 cm (2.2-2.8 in)) straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown with straw-yellow stripes on top and pale underneath. They have a dark stripe through the eye, with light stripes above and below it. Their wings are pointed.
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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.
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.
A medium-sized wader, the snipe lives in marshes, wet grassland and moorlands, where it nests in simple scrapes. It uses its long, probing bill to find insects, earthworms and crustaceans in the mud, typically swallowing prey whole.
Jack Snipes are mostly silent, except during courtship when the male performs an aerial display, emitting a sound similar to a galloping horse. This sound is a hallmark of their mating ritual and is seldom heard outside the breeding season.
During courtship male jack snipes perform aerial displays and make a distinctive sound which sounds a bit like a galloping horse. Jack snipes breed from May to early September and can produce 2 broods a season.
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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.
