Identifying Common Snipe and Jack Snipe

A stocky brown bird rockets up from just in front of your feet, but is it a Common Snipe, or its rarer relative Jack Snipe? Let us help you tell the two apart.

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Counting birds and the Wetland Bird Survey (Tuesday 27 September, 10am)

This course involves one online session of about 1 hour 45 minutes, with a trainer:participant ratio of about 1:30. Participants' microphones are muted during the presentations but there is a large interactive component...

Identifying Common Snipe and Jack Snipe

BTO bird identification videos are supported by Natureguides

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