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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.
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.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity. A lake at the RSPB West Sedgemoor nature reserve in Somerset This is a list of RSPB reserves.
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 name Gallinago was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 as a subdivision of the genus Scolopax. [2] Brisson did not use Carl Linnaeus's binomial system of nomenclature and although many of Brisson's genera had been adopted by ornithologists, his subdivision of genera were generally ignored. [3]
The great snipe (Gallinago media) is a small stocky wader in the genus Gallinago. This bird's breeding habitat is marshes and wet meadows with short vegetation in north-eastern Europe , including north-western Russia .
RSPB Dearne Valley Old Moor is an 89-hectare (220-acre) wetlands nature reserve in the Dearne Valley near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). It lies on the junction of the A633 and A6195 roads and is bordered by the Trans Pennine Trail long-distance path .
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.