Common Snipe

Common Snipe - North east Iceland
The Common Snipe is a medium sized, skulking wading bird with short legs and a long straight bill. Both sexes are mottled brown above with paler buff stripes on the back, dark streaks on the chest and pale underparts.

The Common Snipe breeds in marshes, bogs, tundra and wet meadows throughout northern Europe and northern Asia. It is a migratory bird, with European birds wintering in southern and western Europe and Africa.

Date: 3rd June 2015

Location: Kaldbakur near Húsavík, north east Iceland

Common Snipe


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Goðafoss, north east Iceland
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