The other kind of snipe hunting involves guns, dogs, walking through knee-deep mud and a real bird that not only flies but does so very, very fast and never in a straight line. We have seen small ...

I went on a snipe hunt last week at a local park, but I wasn’t nearly as successful as last October. Back then, I shot two of the medium-sized chunky gamebird at once — with my camera. Taking their ...

“Do you know the bogs at all, Mr. Riley?” asked a member of the Garryricken Club in Kilkenny as he sent me out on my first shoot in Ireland. “I’ve heard the bogs can be treacherous,” I ventured. “It’s ...

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My first memory of snipe was from Girl Scout camp. There was this myth (or threat) of going on a snipe hunt. The Urban Dictionary describes a snipe hunt as “A North-American prank and rite of passage ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The folklore surrounding snipe hunting as a practical joke played on gullible, inexperienced campers has been around for so long that some people don’t realize snipe are real ...

Ever been on a snipe hunt? No, not the kind with a pillow case and group of guys who leave you in the woods without a flashlight. I'm talking about a legitimate, gun-totin' hunt for snipe. I'd bet ...

Imagine having to fly non-stop for five days over thousands of kilometres of ocean for your survival. That’s what the Latham’s Snipe shorebird does twice a year, for every year of its life. This ...

In a major breakthrough for Australian ornithology, researchers have placed a tracker on the "holy grail" of endangered birds — the Australian painted-snipe — for the first time. Ecologist and painted ...

The ACT has joined Victoria and Japan as part of a global conservation project to protect the Latham's snipe, a migratory shorebird feared to be in decline. And young Canberran conservationists are ...

Winter walks across damp pasture and marshy ground can be depressing. Cold seems to seep up through the best of boots and there is little to see in the way of wildlife. This can change in an instant, ...