WOT Bird is it?
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paul o'
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A Guy Out West
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This bird was a russet brown and the belly is not white. When I enlarged the photo in order to post it the colors got a little screwy. PM me your email and I will send you a better picture.
John Gryphon
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Do a comparo on the vertical barring on the shoulders...its so close to a snipe that it might just be a snipe.
A Guy Out West
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This bird does not have a white belly. Of the 5 or 6 snipe I have shot by chance over the years, all had white bellies. This bird is really a russet brown color, I have 2 other pictures that I can email to any interested party, PM me your email and I will forward along. The additional photos I have are not much better but you can see if you really look hard. You can use the top of the fence post to judge size by, and a snipe is smaller than the Dowitch. Don't you fret Swedish, we will be vindicated. By the way Swedish, as long as you like girls, you can come and hunt anytime you like. We split the cost of gas, food, and cabin rental, you buy your tags and that's it. You can even use one of our rifles. I think a SE Idaho Mulie hunt might be a good idea, tags are bought over the counter on a first come first serve basis. Cost of cabin is about $30 each per day, it's rustic. First part of October is the time to go. Might have to make it in 2020, I may be taking another SD member to Wyoming this year if we draw tags.
A Guy Out West
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John, how about my avitar, can you guess where that picture was taken? Hint, not too far from your neck of the woods.
John Gryphon
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The Queen Vic Market?
levigsp
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I eagerly await photos. from the first photo I would stake my reputation that it is not a dowitcher, its totally wrong! I have hunted snipe all over the world and have seen my fair share of all waders, including dowitchers. May I forward the photos to our Bird ID panel here in UK?
deerstalker.308
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There’s no woodcock in those 3 photos
paul o'
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deerstalker.308
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You are aware the internet isn’t always correct Paul?
I can unequivocally say that bird #2 in those images is not a woodcock. Look at the face, eye stripe on woodcock; black with no stripe above or below..... plus the bulging eye, shape of the head, compared to the second image, stripes below and above, both pale in colour, not to mention behaviour, woodcock would rarely find themselves perched as pictured on top of a post, classic snipe behaviour, not a woodcock
deerstalker.308
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I just clicked on the bing link, and if you do similarly, you’ll see the snipe is actually credited correctly, as a snipe, it’s a comparison of woodcock and snipe, how ironic!!
paul o'
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found some more pointless internet facts:
From a distance, woodcocks and snipes look like twins: long beaks; similar bodies; plumage of brown, white, black and gray. Woodcocks and snipes are classified in the same order, Charadriiformes, and they both live in habitats near water or at sea. Woodcocks and snipes belong to the same family, Scolopacidae: the sandpipers and relatives. But the American woodcock (Scolopax minor) and Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) aren't identical. They're cousins whose differences you can see up close.
American Woodcock
Woodcocks didn't receive necks; their heads sit atop the body.
Woodcock aficionados love to watch the mating ritual of male woodcocks --described as a dance in the air. Melodious tunes and a sound referred to as a "peent" flow from the acrobatic male. Woodcocks devour earthworms with their long beaks. The male's beak is 2.5 inches long; the female's slightly longer. Woodcocks have stocky bodies and rounded wings in flight.
Wilson's Snipe
Until 2002, Wilson's snipe was also called the common snipe; but common snipe now refers solely to the Eurasian snipe (Gallinago gallinago). Compared will woodcocks, snipes have smaller heads and eyes, slender bodies and a neck. Snipes wear distinctive dark stripes on their heads and backs. Beaks are longer. Males, females and juveniles look alike. Snipes dine on earthworms, insects, mollusks and crustaceans. Male snipes also engage in a flamboyant mating ritual.
Range & Habitat
American woodcocks reside near water in new growth forests. Found year-round in the southern United States; woodcocks breed in northeastern Canada westward to the Great Lakes. Concentrations of woodcocks reside in Mississippi and Louisiana during fall and winter. Wilson's snipe prefers freshwater bogs and marshes. They breed in Canada and Alaska. Winter finds them in the lower 48 states. Some snipes live year-round in the northwest corner of the United States.
Fun Facts
American woodcocks are also called timberdoodles, night partridges, big-eyes, bog suckers and mud bats. Shorebirds, woodcocks are hunted for sport. The plumage of Wilson's snipes keep them well hidden. You generally won't see snipes until they are flushed from hiding. Snipes' long bills are flexible at the tips. Snipes can control their beak tips without moving the beak near the skull. The flexible beak tips help snipes find prey in the mud.
Another fact is they taste very nice
From a distance, woodcocks and snipes look like twins: long beaks; similar bodies; plumage of brown, white, black and gray. Woodcocks and snipes are classified in the same order, Charadriiformes, and they both live in habitats near water or at sea. Woodcocks and snipes belong to the same family, Scolopacidae: the sandpipers and relatives. But the American woodcock (Scolopax minor) and Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata) aren't identical. They're cousins whose differences you can see up close.
American Woodcock
Woodcocks didn't receive necks; their heads sit atop the body.
Woodcock aficionados love to watch the mating ritual of male woodcocks --described as a dance in the air. Melodious tunes and a sound referred to as a "peent" flow from the acrobatic male. Woodcocks devour earthworms with their long beaks. The male's beak is 2.5 inches long; the female's slightly longer. Woodcocks have stocky bodies and rounded wings in flight.Wilson's Snipe
Until 2002, Wilson's snipe was also called the common snipe; but common snipe now refers solely to the Eurasian snipe (Gallinago gallinago). Compared will woodcocks, snipes have smaller heads and eyes, slender bodies and a neck. Snipes wear distinctive dark stripes on their heads and backs. Beaks are longer. Males, females and juveniles look alike. Snipes dine on earthworms, insects, mollusks and crustaceans. Male snipes also engage in a flamboyant mating ritual.
Range & Habitat
American woodcocks reside near water in new growth forests. Found year-round in the southern United States; woodcocks breed in northeastern Canada westward to the Great Lakes. Concentrations of woodcocks reside in Mississippi and Louisiana during fall and winter. Wilson's snipe prefers freshwater bogs and marshes. They breed in Canada and Alaska. Winter finds them in the lower 48 states. Some snipes live year-round in the northwest corner of the United States.
Fun Facts
American woodcocks are also called timberdoodles, night partridges, big-eyes, bog suckers and mud bats. Shorebirds, woodcocks are hunted for sport. The plumage of Wilson's snipes keep them well hidden. You generally won't see snipes until they are flushed from hiding. Snipes' long bills are flexible at the tips. Snipes can control their beak tips without moving the beak near the skull. The flexible beak tips help snipes find prey in the mud.
Another fact is they taste very nice
deerstalker.308
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All of the above, spelling errors aside maybe ”correct” however, yet again there is an image which is clearly a snipe which you seem to think is once again, a woodcock.
deerstalker.308
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