Jack Snipe

Lymnocryptes minimusOrder: CHARADRIIFORMES Family: Sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

Codes: Common Name: JASN Scientific Name: LYMMIN ITIS Taxonomic No.: 176591

Breeding Location:

Taiga

Breeding Type:

Solitary nester

Breeding Population:

Accidental in North America

Egg Color:

Light gray or olive brown with red brown spots

Number of Eggs:

Incubation Days:

Egg Incubator:

Female

Nest Material:

No material added to nest.

Migration:

Migratory

General

Jack Snipe: Medium-sized, stocky sandpiper with mottled brown upperparts and paler underparts. Eyestripe is dark. Yellow stripes on back are visible in flight. Sexes are similar.

Range and Habitat

Jack Snipe: Prefers marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows in northern Europe and northern Russia. Spends winters in Great Britain, Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal Europe, Africa, and India. Breeds in northern taiga - wet, open areas with birch and willow forests. Winters on shallow, wet, and muddy areas with plenty of vegetation; prefers fens, marshes, flood meadows, wet ditches, riverbanks, and sewage farms. Has occurred as an accidental spring migrant in the Pribilofs and in the late fall in California and Labrador.

Breeding and Nesting

Jack Snipe: Four light gray or olive brown eggs with red brown spots are laid in well-hidden ground nest. Eggs are incubated for 24 days by the female.

Foraging and Feeding

Jack Snipe: Eats earthworms, insects, small mollusks, grass, and seeds; forages in soft mud, probing with its bill or picking up food by sight.

Vocalization

Jack Snipe: Male performs an aerial display during courtship, and has a song like a galloping horse.

Similar Species

Jack Snipe: Common Snipe is larger and has a longer bill.

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Jack Snipe

Jack Snipe: Medium, stocky sandpiper, mottled brown upperparts, paler underparts. Eyestripe is dark. Yellow stripes on back are visible in flight. Eats mollusks, insects, larvae, worms and seeds. Weak flight with rapid, shallow wing beats.

● Song: "ogogogoIK-ogogIK"

● Foraging & Feeding: Jack Snipe: Eats earthworms, insects, small mollusks, grass, and seeds; forages in soft mud, probing with its bill or picking up food by sight.

● Breeding & nesting: Jack Snipe: Four light gray or olive brown eggs with red brown spots are laid in well-hidden ground nest. Eggs are incubated for 24 days by the female.

● Similar species: Jack Snipe: Common Snipe is larger and has a longer bill.

Flight Pattern

Direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Jack Snipe: Prefers marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows in northern Europe and northern Russia. Spends winters in Great Britain, Atlantic and Mediterranean coastal Europe, Africa, and India. Breeds in northern taiga - wet, open areas with birch and willow forests. Winters on shallow, wet, and muddy areas with plenty of vegetation; prefers fens, marshes, flood meadows, wet ditches, riverbanks, and sewage farms. Has occurred as an accidental spring migrant in the Pribilofs and in the late fall in California and Labrador.

^BreedingSolitary nester

^PopulationAccidental in North America

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight1.9 Ounces

Underparts

Belly, undertail coverts, chest, flanks, and foreneck.

Upperparts

Back, rump, hindneck, wings, and crown.

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

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General

Range and Habitat

Breeding and Nesting

Foraging and Feeding

Vocalization

Similar Species

Jack Snipe

Flight Pattern