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	NatureWorks - Common Snipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The common snipe is a meduim-sized wading bird with a long, straight, pointed, fl bill.
		The common snipe breeds from Alaska to Newfoundland south to the mid-United States.
		Common snipe can be found in wet grassy areas of freshwater marshes, ponds, flooded meadows, fields and occasionally, salt marshes.
	www.nhptv.org /natureworks/commonsnipe.htm (226 words)

	Peatlands \| Wildlife \| Birds \| Common snipe
		During the winter, snipe are common in upland blanket bogs, lowland raised bogs, fens and wet meadows.
		Snipe appear to be declining in some areas, possibly as a result of the loss of suitable nesting habitat.
		Snipe are protected during the close season but may be hunted in Northern Ireland during the open season from 1 September to the 31 January.
	www.peatlandsni.gov.uk /wildlife/birds/snipe.htm (332 words)

	Common Snipe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Snipe, Gallinago gallinago, is a small, stocky shorebird.
		Snipe of all sorts have been hunted for food and sport since the invention of the scattergun.
		In the days of market hunting, the most skilled hunters of all would often bring many snipe to market, and earned the moniker "sniper" as a badge of respect for the difficulty in shooting this amazing little bird.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Snipe (366 words)

	The Wildson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly
		The Wildson's Snipe on the Isles of Scilly
		The face pattern recalled Pintail Snipe, with the supercilium bulging in front of the eye and considerably broader than the eye-stripe at the base of the bill, and the legs were duller, more greyish-green, than the cleaner green of the accompanying Common Snipe.
		We returned to Lower Moors and found all the snipe in stretching and preening mode, and it was not long before the Wilson's Snipe had spread its tail and raised its wing, revealing the important features of the pattern on the axillanes and underwing-coverts and the narrow white trailing edge to the secondaries.
	www.birdingworld.freeserve.co.uk /WilsonsSnipeArticle.htm (1079 words)

	* Snipe - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The species found in Britain are the common snipe Gallinago gallinago about 25 cm/10 in long and mottled fl and brown; the slightly smaller jack snipe Lymnocryptes minima, and the great or solitary snipe G...
		Common Snipe: An individual was seen near Bronaugh in southwest Missouri in breeding habitat on May 27, 1992 in Vernon County.
		Common snipe, a bird normally flushed into a furious disappearing flight or seen at a distance from a hide, when its head briefly peeps above the grass...
	www.bestknows.com /animals/snipe.html (273 words)

	Snipe - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Snipe, common name for shorebirds of three genera of the sandpiper family.
		Snipes breed abundantly on all continents except Australia (where,...
		fire, discharge, open fire, fire off, fire at, bombard, snipe, let off, gun down, kill, injure, wound, maim, blow away, shoot down, spurt, squirt,...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Snipe.html (109 words)

	AllRefer.com - snipe (Vertebrate Zoology) - Encyclopedia
		The mud snipe or woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a nocturnal woodland bird.
		The European common snipe, found also in Asia and Africa, is similar to the Wilson's snipe.
		Snipes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Charadriiformes, family Scolopacidae.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/snipe.html (220 words)

	* Common Snipe - (Bird): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common Snipe are fairly cosmopolitan birds being found in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
		Snipe first arrive in late March and the first half of April (average 8 April,...
		The food of our Common Snipe consists principally of ground-worms, insects, and the juicy slender roots of different vegetables, all of which tend to give its flesh that richness of flavour and juicy tenderness,...
	www.bestknows.com /bird/common_snipe.html (321 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Common Snipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Snipe first arrive in late March and the first half of April (average 8 April, earliest 16 March); a "tired" bird on Chebogue Point, Yarmouth County, on 8 March 1982 (E. Ruff) was abnormally early.
		Unlike the woodcock, to which it is closely related, the snipe may perform its courtship flight by night or by day and remains aloft much longer, particularly on moonlit nights and cloudy or rainy days.
		Rural people living near meadows where snipe are nesting have long known this bird as the "meadow-hen." Many know it only from its strange sound produced in spring and summer high up over the meadows and have little idea what the bird looks like.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0159.htm (659 words)

	Snipe / Migratory Birds / Hunting / KDWP - KDWP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilson’s snipe (formerly known as common snipe) is a large shorebird (about 10.5 inches long, 3.7 oz) and one of two shorebird species that can be hunted in Kansas.
		Snipe hunting is physically challenging because hunters wade or slog through often mucky areas to flush snipe.
		Snipe hunters need to be proficient in wetland bird identification to make sure they do not accidentally shoot similar-looking species that are protected.
	www.kdwp.state.ks.us /news/hunting/migratory_birds/snipe (349 words)

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		The Common Snipe of the Palearctic region breeds across Europe and Asia to the very eastern edge of Russia and China and winters across nw and middle Europe, across central Africa (but rarely south of the Equator) and across to the Middle East, India and SE Asia.
		Wilson's Snipe displays an underwing pattern which is similar to that of the Common Snipe but possesses narrower white tips to the secondaries and broader white tips to the primary coverts.
		Wilson's Snipe is rather coarsely patterned on the neck sides with a brown-ginger wash mostly confined to the mid and upper breast.
	www.birdinghawaii.co.uk /snipe2.htm (1956 words)

	Wilson's Snipe.--Common Snipe
		The food of our Common Snipe consists principally of ground-worms, insects, and the juicy slender roots of different vegetables, all of which tend to give its flesh that richness of flavour and juicy tenderness, for which it is so deservedly renowned, it being equal to that of the Woodcock.
		To WILSON is due the merit of having first shewn the difference between this bird and the Common Snipe of Europe; and it is honourable for the ornithologists of that region of the globe to have dedicated our species to so zealous and successful a student of nature.
		The Snipe flies low at night, and in circles, as in the day; but it is only in particular spots and at short intervals that the sound is heard.
	www.abirdshome.com /Audubon/VolV/00595.html (2763 words)

	Printable Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The common snipe, also known as Wilson's snipe, is a member of a diverse family of small-and medium-sized shore birds that includes sandpipers, dowitchers, godwits and others.
		A snipe is not as large as an upland plover and a snipe's beak is extremely long, more than twice the length of a plover's beak.
		Snipe are similar in flesh and taste to the smaller American woodcock.
	www.helenair.com /articles/2003/09/14/outdoors/c03091103_02.prt (410 words)

	Birds of India - Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago - Scolopacidae - Ciconiiformes - Avifauna - Birding in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a widespread winter visitor and local resident in India.
		Common Snipe are stocky, long-billed inland sandpipers of moist woodlands, marshes and riverbanks.
		Common Snipe drink a lot of water and produce pellets from the indigestible materials of their prey (shells, exoskeletons, etc.).
	www.birding.in /birds/Ciconiiformes/Scolopacidae/common_snipe.htm (556 words)

	Snipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Snipe is a term used to describe 18 very similar wading bird species, characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage.
		There are two southern snipe species in the genus Coenocorypha, 15 typical snipe in the genus Gallinago, and the very small Jack snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus.
		A snipe hunt is a practical joke in which a victim is told they are going to hunt snipe in an area where they are guaranteed not to be, and are then left there.
	www.findword.org /sn/snipe.html (350 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Common Snipe, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		Plumages.--The young snipe in its dark and richly-colored natal down is one of the handsomest of the young waders.
		Snipe usually lie closely crouched on the ground trusting to their excellent protective coloration, and do not flush until nearly trodden upon; so that in their hurry to get away their flight is erratic.
		The 'scape' of the snipe has sufficient resemblance to the woodcock's 'peent,' which forms a part of the nuptial performance of that species, to leave little doubt that the two are homologous (that is, of the same derivation), if we assume the snipe and woodcock to be related.
	home.bluemarble.net /~pqn/ch61-70/snipe.html (5488 words)

	Birds, Familiar: Common Snipe, Life Histories of North American Birds, A.C. Bent
		Plumages.--The young snipe in its dark and richly-colored natal down is one of the handsomest of the young waders.
		Snipe usually lie closely crouched on the ground trusting to their excellent protective coloration, and do not flush until nearly trodden upon; so that in their hurry to get away their flight is erratic.
		The 'scape' of the snipe has sufficient resemblance to the woodcock's 'peent,' which forms a part of the nuptial performance of that species, to leave little doubt that the two are homologous (that is, of the same derivation), if we assume the snipe and woodcock to be related.
	birdsbybent.com /ch61-70/snipe.html (5488 words)

	Common Snipe: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		Snipe nest on the ground, and are preyed upon by a variety of small mammalian predators such as weasel, mink, and skunk, and by avian predators such as owls and hawks.
		Snipe occur in all of Minnesota, but are most common in north-central forests and wet meadows.
		Snipe are alert, wild birds that can never be caught by hand.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/birds/commonsnipe.html (323 words)

	Common Snipe
		The Common Snipe is primarily a bird of open freshwater marshes, bogs, wet meadows, and the northern tundra during the breeding season.
		During the breeding season Common Snipes are found across Canada and south in the United States through New England, New York, Michigan, the northern Great Plains and through the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Northwest.
		Common Snipes have generally warm brown upperparts that are prominently marked on their heads and backs with pale longitudinal stripes.
	www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /common_snipe_info.htm (537 words)

	snipe. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The mud snipe or woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a nocturnal woodland bird.
		The European common snipe, found also in Asia and Africa, is similar to the Wilson’s snipe.
		Snipes are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Charadriiformes, family Scolopacidae.
	www.bartleby.com /65/sn/snipe.html (180 words)

	Birds of Interior AK: Shorebirds, Common Snipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have many pictures of snipe but mostly from a distance as they are fairly shy and quite alert.
		Snipe males make an interesting hooting noise with their feathers as they fly in swooping display flights over the nesting area.
		This snipe was captured, banded, weighed, measured and released by staff of Alaska Birds Observatory at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks, Alaska.
	www.birdsinalaska.org /shorebirds_commonsnipe.htm (79 words)

	BISON Species Account 041770 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Common snipes are rare winter residents at the White Sands National Monument, in Dona Ana and Otero counties 42.
		Common snipes are uncommon from the middle of October to the middle of April, and are fairly common from the end of August to the middle of September 65.
		Common Snipe were seen in areas of desert saltgrass or in places where other low growing species like spikerush formed a nearly colplete mat of cover.
	www.fw.vt.edu /fishex/nmex_main/species/041770.htm (1560 words)

	Birds of Interior AK: Shorebirds, Common Snipe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have many pictures of snipe but mostly from a distance as they are fairly shy and quite alert.
		Snipe males make an interesting hooting noise with their feathers as they fly in swooping display flights over the nesting area.
		This snipe was captured, banded, weighed, measured and released by staff of Alaska Birds Observatory at Creamer's Field in Fairbanks, Alaska.
	www.mosquitonet.com /~jgilbert/Birds_ofinterior_alaska/shorebirds_commonsnipe.htm (79 words)

	Common Snipe - Gallinago gallinago - Bécassine des marais
		Common Snipe is a migratory bird, migrating southwards during the colder season of the year.
		When Common Snipe is alarmed, it crouches and flushes suddenly at some metres, giving a harsh call and with a vigorous flight action; it flies high for long distance and drops back into cover.
		Common Snipe is able to travel to a long distance in a short time.
	www.oiseaux.net /oiseaux/charadriiformes/common.snipe.html (1126 words)

	Common Snipe Habitat Model
		Common snipe are holarctic, and breed in North America “from Alaska and California eastward across the northern United States and Canada to Hudson Bay, northern Quebec, Labrador and Newfoundland...
		Tuck (1972) summarized common snipe breeding habitat in North America as “...restricted to organic soils, primarily peatlands” within the boreal northern forest biome, using “...sedge bogs, fens, and alder or willow swamps” which are poorly drained, mostly treeless, and low in soil nutrients.
		Common snipe (Capella gallinago delicata= Gallinago gallinago of Edwards 1974).
	www.fws.gov /r5gomp/gom/habitatstudy/metadata/common_snipe_model.htm (935 words)

	Gallinago gallinago - Common Snipe
		The common snipe is a bird of marshland.
		Snipe build their nests of grass on the ground, often concealing it in clumps of rushes.
		With its long beak, the snipe is well equipped for feeding on worms in muddy marshland.
	www.first-nature.com /birds/gallinago_gallinago.htm (109 words)

	Wilson Snipe Hunting-Southern Florida Common Snipe Hunting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The common snipe are a long-billed brownish shorebird with a white striped back and are similar in size to a mourning dove.
		Snipe are very migratory, they move with the cold fronts so the hunting is usually much better once a few fronts have passed through the area.
		The price for our snipe hunt is $295.00 for two persons and $395.00 for three and includes drinks, ice and also taking care of the birds but does not include licenses.
	www.huntsflorida.com /AboutSnipe.htm (462 words)

	Common Snipe Skull Bone Clones BC-171
		The flight path of the Common Snipe is characterized by an irregular or "zigzag" pattern.
		The snipe feeds in the muddy shallows at the edge of lakes, streams, and ponds, or in swamp mud.
		The bill of the Common Snipe is specially adapted for the type of food it consumes and the habitat in which it lives.
	www.boneclones.com /bc-171.htm (459 words)

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