🌿 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,

Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) | BIRDS & Nature

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Did you know that the drumming sound of a snipe doesn’t come from their mouth? They actually have tiny little drumkits hidden amongst their plumage. Well that isn’t true, but they do create the sound with their feathers, specifically by vibrating tail feathers in a courtship display. On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me… 🎼 Twelve snipes drumming! And with that we now have our Twelve Birds of Christmas. If you missed any or want a refresher ahead of this evening's carol singin