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    Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes snipe is restricted to Asia and Europe and the Coenocorypha snipes are found only...
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  • is duped into trying to catch an elusive, nonexistent animal called a snipe. Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for...
    12 KB (1,349 words) - 20:59, 25 August 2024
  • Look up snipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A snipe is a wading bird. Snipe may also refer to: Woodcock Snipe (rapper) (active 2007–2008), from...
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  • Thumbnail for Common snipe
    The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a small, stocky wader native to the Old World. The breeding habitats are marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows...
    14 KB (1,468 words) - 18:50, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wilson's snipe
    Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. The generic name Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen"...
    7 KB (755 words) - 12:36, 16 August 2024
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    The pin-tailed snipe or pintail snipe (Gallinago stenura) is a species of bird in the family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers. It breeds in northern Russia...
    4 KB (406 words) - 22:57, 21 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Great snipe
    The great snipe (Gallinago media) is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation...
    10 KB (1,047 words) - 22:23, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jack snipe
    The jack snipe or jacksnipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a small stocky wader. It is the smallest snipe, and the only member of the genus Lymnocryptes. Features...
    7 KB (750 words) - 10:07, 14 January 2024
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    The name sniper comes from the verb to snipe, which originated in the 1770s among soldiers in British India in reference to shooting snipes, a wader that...
    120 KB (14,083 words) - 01:01, 15 November 2024
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    painted-snipes are short-legged, long-billed birds similar in shape to the true snipes, but their plumage is much more striking. There is sexual dimorphism...
    7 KB (678 words) - 15:40, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Humber Super Snipe
    The Humber Super Snipe is a car which was produced from 1938 to 1967 by British-based manufacturer Humber Limited. The Super Snipe was introduced in October...
    25 KB (2,686 words) - 06:39, 4 October 2024
  • Look up snipes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Snipes may refer to: Snipe, a wading bird Snipes (surname) Snipes (film), a 2001 film Snipes (video...
    399 bytes (77 words) - 14:03, 5 October 2020
  • Look up sniper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A sniper is a trained sharpshooter who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain...
    46 KB (1,506 words) - 12:21, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auckland snipe
    The Auckland snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica), also known as the Auckland Island snipe, is a small bird in the sandpiper family. It is the...
    5 KB (432 words) - 02:07, 24 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sopwith Snipe
    The Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe is a British single-seat biplane fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was designed and built by the Sopwith Aviation Company...
    22 KB (2,673 words) - 01:58, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for South American painted-snipe
    The South American painted-snipe (Nycticryphes semicollaris), or lesser painted-snipe, is a shorebird in the family Rostratulidae. There are two other...
    3 KB (351 words) - 14:00, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Latham's snipe
    Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii) is a medium-sized, long-billed, migratory snipe of the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. The snipe is 29–33 cm long...
    4 KB (466 words) - 14:13, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Campbell snipe
    Campbell snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica perseverance), also known as the Campbell Island snipe, is a rare subspecies of the Subantarctic snipe, endemic to Campbell...
    5 KB (487 words) - 02:35, 6 August 2024
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    years later he assigned the species to its own genus. With the exception of the Chatham snipe and the Forbes's snipe (described from fossils found in the...
    14 KB (1,641 words) - 20:44, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Subantarctic snipe
    The Subantarctic snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica) is a species of snipe endemic to New Zealand's subantarctic islands. The Maori call it "Tutukiwi". The...
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