The Bay Area is a permanent or temporary home for 250 different species of resident and migratory birds. Noise can affect ...

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Here at Magpie Ridge west of Gilby, N.D., where I watch most of my birds and where no magpie has been seen for many months: Here the bird of the week is Wilson's snipe. This would not be the case for ...

I went on a snipe hunt last week at a local park, but I wasn’t nearly as successful as last October. Back then, I shot two of the medium-sized chunky gamebird at once — with my camera. Taking their ...

IT is disputed whether the snipe's drumming—a curious noise, suggestive of a miniature threshing machine—is made by the bird with its wings or by its tail, or by both wings and tail. Some recent ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The folklore surrounding snipe hunting as a practical joke played on gullible, inexperienced campers has been around for so long that some people don’t realize snipe are real ...

How many of you have ever been on a snipe hunt? A few of us who grew up in the Midwest or East probably have had a session in the woods at night holding onto a burlap sack and calling for a snipe. I ...

The prank is as old as dirt. Some unsuspecting person is handed a bag and whistle and sent into the woods to capture a mysterious bird known as a snipe. The bird will come if you wait long enough, the ...

The other kind of snipe hunting involves guns, dogs, walking through knee-deep mud and a real bird that not only flies but does so very, very fast and never in a straight line. We have seen small ...

It gets pretty noisy outside at about 4:30 on a clear morning in June. That's an hour before dawn. And that's when the birds start singing. Friday was a nice night, so I pitched my tent, hoping I ...

A species of wetland bird has had its best ever year at the RSPB's Campfield Marsh reserve in north Cumbria. There is now a record-breaking 22 pairs of nesting snipe at Campfield Marsh, as well as ...