in pursuit of a third bird. What resulted was a mad dash of snipe across the landscape, accompanied by frenzied, high-pitched cheeping noises broken occasionally by the winnowing sounds ...

Like many Australian wetland birds, the species appears to be nomadic ... a potentially useful survey tool – an audio recording of the Australian painted-snipe’s call. The greater painted-snipe makes ...

The birds dive to increase their speed and ... could be used to shed light on how different species of snipe produce different pitched calls. "Some species do have narrower tail feathers, and ...

The older kids teach you the call of the wild snipe, arm you with a pillowcase in which to bag the bird, leave you in the middle of the unfamiliar woods that are teeming with shadows and strange ...

Birds that will be renamed include those currently called Wilson’s warbler and Wilson’s snipe, both named after ... Park served as a public wake-up call about the discrimination that Black ...

The "holy grail" of Australian birds has been spotted this week in the muck and mire of a wetland in southern New South Wales. The snipe sighting is only the fifth appearance of the bird this year ...

The BBC met the team behind the fascinating project. The jack snipe is a small and secretive bird and I'm squelching through the site of a former South Staffordshire colliery trying to spot one.