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Name Of snipe

Name snipe
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Group Name wisp
More About snipe

  • Long-billed wader with streaked cream and green back, frequenting wet margins
  • Habitat: freshwater marshes and flooded fields
  • Once abundant resident, now very localized as a result of drainage of wet meadows: only a few pairs breed in Essex
  • Long legs and very long bill, dark streaked upperparts
  • Tends to keep to cover but feeds in open when not alarmed; flies off in zig-zag flight when disturbed; gregarious
  • Eats worms and insects, feeding with fast sewing machine-like action
  • Nest is a lined hollow on ground
  • 1 or 2 Broods April to May; 4 eggs pale green with brown blotches
  • When displaying, males make distinctive drumming noise with outer tail feathers


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