Common snipe | Lebanese Hunting Club

🌿 Common Snipe Feeding Time — Precision Hunter! 🦅✨🎣 4K The Common Snipe is a shy, stocky wading bird known for its mottled brown, camouflaged plumage, long bill, and distinctive "drumming" display flight during breeding season, where its tail feathers create a bleating sound. It inhabits wetlands like marshes, bogs, and wet meadows across the Old World, feeding on insects and worms by probing the mud with its sensitive bill. When startled, it flushes with a zig-zag flight and a rasping call,

12 Snipe are drumming 🥁 And Common Snipe really do drum! This sound isn’t a call or a vocalisation, but a mechanical noise produced by their tail feathers. The two outer tail feathers are structurally different to other feathers, being stiffer and projected further away from the rest of the tail. As the Snipe swoops, the air rushing through these adapted feathers causes them to vibrate which creates this iconic drumming sound. Common Snipe live on wet grassland, marshes and moorland throughout