Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidæ, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

a wading bird which lives in marshy places and is characterized by a long, flexible bill.

A type of shore bird.

Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks

a bird notorious for its flightiness and its tendency to run right into traps

a kind of bird, I think

a kind of shore bird

a large flightless bird that is very reclusive

a small bird in the sandpiper family, though they are seen in fields, with legs that appear too long

wading bird; simpleton

A long billed wading bird of bog and marsh. The Common Snipe ( Capella gallinago) is native to the BWCA. Padashkânji or manominikeshi in the Ojibwe.

A Snipe is any of nearly 20 very similar wading bird species characterised by a very long slender bill and cryptic plumage. Snipe in the family Scolopacidae belong either to the small genera Coenocorypha (the New Zealand snipes) and Lymnocryptes, or to the about 15 typical snipes in the genus Gallinago. The latter are the closest relatives of the woodcocks , whereas the small genera represent earlier divergences in the snipe/woodcock clade (Thomas et al., 2004).