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This article is about the Snipe Bird. For other meanings see Snipe (disambiguation).

Snipe

Common Snipe

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family†:	Scolopacidae

Genera
Coenocorypha Gallinago Lymnocryptes

† see also: wader

A Snipe is any of 18 very similar wading bird species, characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage.

These are birds of marshy areas which often crouch motionless when disturbed until exploding away when almost underfoot.

They search for invertebrates in the mud with a "sewing-machine" action of their long bills.

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

There are two southern snipe species in the genus Coenocorypha, 15 typical snipe in the genus Gallinago, and the very small Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus.

Species are:

Family: Scolopacidae (part)
- Chatham Snipe , Coenocorypha pusilla
- Subantarctic Snipe , Coenocorypha aucklandica
- Jack Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus
- Solitary Snipe , Gallinago solitaria
- Latham's Snipe , Gallinago hardwickii
- Wood Snipe , Gallinago nemoricola
- Pintail Snipe, Gallinago stenura
- Swinhoe's Snipe , Gallinago megala
- African Snipe , Gallinago nigripennis
- Madagascar Snipe , Gallinago macrodactyla
- Great Snipe, Gallinago media
- Common Snipe, Gallinago gallinago
  - The American race, G. g. delicata is sometimes considered a separate species, Wilson's Snipe.
- South American Snipe , Gallinago paraguaiae
- Noble Snipe , Gallinago nobilis
- Giant Snipe , Gallinago undulata
- Fuegian Snipe , Gallinago stricklandii
- Andean Snipe , Gallinago jamesoni
- Imperial Snipe , Gallinago imperialis

"Snipe hunt"

A snipe huntA snipe hunt is one of a class of practical jokes that involve experienced people making fun of newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task. Inexperienced campers or hunters are told about a bird or animal called the snipe, as well as a (usua is a hazing prank or practical jokeA practical joke or prank is a practice intended to be humorous (usually in action, not just in words) in which another person is fooled, annoyed, or embarrassed in what the perpetrator imagines to be a mild and light-hearted fashion. Some types of practi in which a victim is told they are going to 'hunt snipe' in an area where they are guaranteed not to be, and are then left there.

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