Snipes
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae
Genera
Coenocorypha Gallinago Lymnocryptes

A Snipe is any of nearly 20 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. The Common Snipe or Fantail Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago) is a small stocky shorebird. Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large Birds It includes about 350 Species and has members in all parts of the world "Sandpiper" redirects here For the 1965 film see The Sandpiper. Coenocorypha is a Genus of tiny Birds also known as the New Zealand snipes, which are found in the Outlying Islands of New Zealand Gallinago is a genus of Birds in the Wader family Scolopacidae. The Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus is a small stocky Wader. Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading Birds such as Storks and A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic In Biological classification, family ( Latin "Sandpiper" redirects here For the 1965 film see The Sandpiper. They are characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage. Plumage refers both to the layer of Feathers that cover a Bird and the pattern colour and arrangement of those feathers The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes Jack Snipe is restriced to Asia and Europe and the Coenocorypha snipes are restriced to New Zealand. Gallinago is a genus of Birds in the Wader family Scolopacidae. The Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus is a small stocky Wader. Coenocorypha is a Genus of tiny Birds also known as the New Zealand snipes, which are found in the Outlying Islands of New Zealand New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island The three species of painted snipe are not closely related to these, and are placed in their own family, the Rostratulidae. Painted snipes are three distinctive Wader Species in the family Rostratulidae.

Contents 1 Description 2 Linguistic Inspiration 3 Genera 4 Footnotes 5 References 6 External links

Description

Snipe in the family Scolopacidae belong either to the small genera Coenocorypha (the New Zealand snipes) and Lymnocryptes, or to the about 15 typical snipes in the genus Gallinago. "Sandpiper" redirects here For the 1965 film see The Sandpiper. The latter are toy closest relatives of the woodcocks , whereas the small genera represent earlier divergences in the snipe/woodcock clade (Thomas et al. The woodcocks are a group of seven extant very similar wading Bird Species in the Genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender A clade is a taxonomic group comprising a single Common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor , 2004). They search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills. An invertebrate is an Animal lacking a Vertebral column. The group includes 98% of all animal Species — all animals except those in the Chordate

Most have distinctive displays, usually given at dawn or dusk.

English manuscripts dating from the 15th century indicate that the bird was originally called a "snyte" (Austin, 1888).

Linguistic Inspiration

The elusive nature of the snipe is well-known among hunters. In the days of market hunting, the most skilled hunters of all would often bring many Common Snipe to market earning the nickname "sniper" as a badge of respect for the difficulty in shooting this bird. The term has evolved into the modern usage sniper, referring to a skilled anti-personnel military sharpshooter. READ DISCUSSION PAGE BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS TO CAPTION BELOW http//en ^[1]

A common form of prank is the "Snipe hunt," in which the victim is given the description of a creature and some ridiculous means of catching it. The object is simply to make the naїve individual (usually a newcomer to a tightly-knit working crew) look foolish for attempting it, and perhaps keep him or her at it as long as possible. However, while the name of the prank is most likely related to the actual Snipe, the creature described is almost always fictional. These "Snipes" are usually granted traits which either make the victim look more foolish for believing it could exist, or lend some form of credence to the foolish means of capture.

Genera

• Coenocorypha
• Lymnocryptes
• Gallinago

Footnotes

References

• McKelvie, Colin Laurie : Woodcock and Snipe: Conservation and Sport (Swan Hill, 1993)
• Thomas, Gavin H. ; Wills, Matthew A. & Székely, Tamás (2004): A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny. BMC Evol. Biol. 4: 28. The BMC-series of journals are a collection of 64 online research journals published by BioMed Central doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-28 PDF fulltext Supplementary Material
• Austin, Thomas. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books. Harleian MS. 279 & Harl. MS. 4016, with extracts from Ashmole MS. 1429, Laud MS. 553, & Douce MS 55. London: for The Early English Text Society by N. The Early English Text Society is an organization to reprint early English texts especially those only available in manuscript Trübner & Co. , 1888

External links

• Snipe videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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