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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.
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.
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.
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.
All your Snipes will be Wilson's Snipe. What has happened is that both the European and American Snipe were called Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago. The North American bird was thought to be a sub-species of the European.
One of two species of snipe regularly found in the UK (and one of 28 species globally), the Common Snipe is a small wetland bird with a very long, slender bill, eyes placed high on the head for all-round vision, and cryptic/camouflaging plumage.
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Id: Small, cryptically coloured wader with very long, straight bill, half as long as its body. Very fast wing-beats in level flight; zig-zags away in panicky escape-flight when flushed, gives kissing call. In fresh or brackish water, not found in the intertidal zone.
