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The common snipe is a well camouflaged bird, it is usually shy and conceals itself close to ground vegetation and flushes only when approached closely. When flushed, they utter a sharp note that sounds like scape, scape and fly off in a series of aerial zig-zags to confuse predators. [ 12 ]
Depiction of a snipe hunter, by A. B. Frost Snipe in Water, by Ohara Koson. Japan, 1900–1930. 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 ...
This 25–27 cm long bird is similar to the longer-billed and longer-tailed common snipe. Adults have short greenish-grey legs and a long straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown on top, with cream lines down their back. They are pale underneath with a streaked buff breast and white belly.
Wood snipe: Gallinago nemoricola Hodgson, 1836: 36 Great snipe: Gallinago media (Latham, 1787) 37 Swinhoe's snipe: Gallinago megala Swinhoe, 1861: 38 Pin-tailed snipe: Gallinago stenura (Bonaparte, 1831) 39 Latham's snipe: Gallinago hardwickii (Gray, JE, 1831) 40 African snipe: Gallinago nigripennis Bonaparte, 1839: 41 Common snipe: Gallinago ...
Wilson's snipe was reduced near the end of the 19th century by hunting and habitat destruction. However, this bird remains fairly common and not considered threatened by the IUCN , although local populations are sensitive to large-scale draining of wetland.
Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) shown drummingDrumming (also called bleating or winnowing) is a sound produced by snipe as part of their courtship display flights. [1] The sound is produced mechanically (rather than vocally) by the vibration of the outer tail feathers when flying in a downwards, swooping motion.
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The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. [1] The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). [5] Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localized island endemics. Most are found in the Northern Hemisphere but a few range into the Greater Sundas, Wallacea and New Guinea.