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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...
    14 KB (1,602 words) - 12:09, 8 June 2024
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    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 (1,466 words) - 14:40, 5 June 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) - 14:43, 5 June 2024
  • Look up snipe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A snipe is a wading bird. Snipe may also refer to: Woodcock Snipe (rapper), American rapper from New...
    2 KB (278 words) - 17:07, 20 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pin-tailed snipe
    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
  • 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
  • Thumbnail for Humber Super Snipe
    The Humber Super Snipe is a car which was produced from 1938 to 1967 by British-based Humber Limited. The Super Snipe was introduced in October 1938, derived...
    25 KB (2,650 words) - 00:09, 3 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...
    121 KB (14,157 words) - 01:01, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sopwith Snipe
    The Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe was 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) - 13:18, 7 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Austral snipe
    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
  • 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 (1,512 words) - 03:50, 9 June 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 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 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) - 08:21, 28 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Snipe eel
    Snipe eels are a family, Nemichthyidae, of eels that consists of nine species in three genera. They are pelagic fishes, found in every ocean, mostly at...
    12 KB (1,072 words) - 02:59, 31 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chrysopilus thoracicus
    Chrysopilus thoracicus, the golden-backed snipe fly, is a species of snipe fly in the family Rhagionidae. It is usually found in woodland areas of the...
    2 KB (101 words) - 23:19, 29 February 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...
    5 KB (523 words) - 08:44, 6 January 2024
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    The African snipe (Gallinago nigripennis) also known as the Ethiopian snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in eastern and southern Africa in wet...
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