Smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years.
There are two close relations, of which the jack snipe is smaller and the great snipe very slightly larger.
It is also crucial to the survival of the red listed reed bunting in north Wiltshire. The area on top of the old landfill site supports a good number of snipe and in recent years internationally important numbers of the scarce jack snipe.
A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
1.1North American Any wader similar to the Eurasian jacksnipe, e.g., the pectoral sandpiper or the common snipe.
Example sentencesExamples
Jack Snipe are probably regular in winter, where Spotted Crake has been recorded three times.
Definition of jacksnipe in US English:
jacksnipe
nounˈjaksnīp
1A small dark Eurasian snipe.
Lymnocryptes minima, family Scolopacidae
Example sentencesExamples
Smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years.
There are two close relations, of which the jack snipe is smaller and the great snipe very slightly larger.
It is also crucial to the survival of the red listed reed bunting in north Wiltshire. The area on top of the old landfill site supports a good number of snipe and in recent years internationally important numbers of the scarce jack snipe.
A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
1.1North American Any wader similar to the Eurasian jacksnipe, e.g., the pectoral sandpiper or the common snipe.
Example sentencesExamples
Jack Snipe are probably regular in winter, where Spotted Crake has been recorded three times.