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Wilson's snipe (formerly called common snipe, a name now used for a Eurasian species) are usually secretive long-billed birds that frequent wet, grassy fields and marshes. They are obvious only in spring when they make dramatic, noisy display flights and -- oddly -- often perch at the tops of posts or dead trees and call (see below). These snipe were photographed at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area near Riverside, California, near Fairbanks, Alaska, at Potter Creek Marsh near Anchorage, Alaska, and at Bear Lake Wildlife Refuge in Idaho. |
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