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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales [1] and in Scotland. [2] It was founded in 1889. It works to promote conservation and protection of birds and the wider environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom.
Rhagionidae or snipe flies are a small family of flies. ... (Leptidae) in the United States and Canada, Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 7:1–181.
common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) at MarshsideMarshside is a wetland nature reserve operated by the RSPB in the Marshside area of Southport, Merseyside, England.It lies 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the centre of Southport, [1] on the southern side of the Ribble estuary, and is part of the wider Ribble & Alt Estuaries Ramsar reserve.
If the snipe flies, hunters have difficulty wing-shooting due to the bird's erratic flight pattern. The difficulties involved around hunting snipes gave rise to the military term sniper , which originally meant an expert hunter highly skilled in marksmanship and camouflaging , but later evolved to mean a sharpshooter or a shooter who makes ...
The Canada jay has been proposed as the national bird of Canada. [1] This is a list of bird species confirmed in Canada. Unless otherwise noted, the list is that of Bird Checklists of the World as of July 2022. [2] Of the 704 species listed here, 236 are accidental.
Swinhoe's snipe, (Gallinago megala), also known as forest snipe or Chinese snipe, is a medium-sized (length 27–29 cm, wingspan 38–44 cm, weight 120 gm), long-billed, migratory wader. The common name commemorates the British naturalist Robert Swinhoe who first described the species in 1861.
The Illinois List of Endangered and Threatened Species is reviewed about every five years by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board (ESPB). [1] To date it has evaluated only plants and animals of the US state of Illinois, not fungi, algae, or other forms of life; species that occur in Illinois which are listed as endangered or threatened by the U.S. federal government under the ...
The common snipe is a well camouflaged bird, it is usually shy and conceals itself close to ground vegetation and flushes only when approached closely. When flushed, they utter a sharp note that sounds like scape, scape and fly off in a series of aerial zig-zags to confuse predators. [ 12 ]