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Wilson's Snipe - (Gallinago delicata) 

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Identification

  • Medium-sized, stocky shorebird
  • Generally brown above, white below
  • Striped head and down back
  • Very long bill, short legs
  • 10.5" (27 cm.)

Habitat

  • Sedge meadows
  • Shallow marsh

Additional Information

  • Common migrant, fairly common
         summer resident
  • Sometimes found in winter along
         open spring streams
  • Flushes with a rapid, zigzag flight
  • Spring courtship ritual of "winnowing", a
         sound made with the tail
         feathers during flight

Comparable Species

  • American Woodcock

Close up of a Wilson's Snipe struting along the ground

Wilson's Snipe hiding among the wetland vegetation

The Kickapoo Reserve Management Board acknowledges that the state and federal lands that comprise the Reserve fall within the ancestral homelands of First Nations people including the Hooçak Nation. We recognize the sovereignty of the Hooçak and other First Nations and will work towards a shared future by continuing to create collaborative opportunities to protect and preserve these lands.

Kickapoo Valley Reserve | S3661 State Highway 131 | La Farge, Wisconsin 54639 
Phone: 608-625-2960 | FAX: 608-625-2962
kickapoo.reserve@krm.state.wi.us

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