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.
● 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.