Snipe

Charadriiformes

Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 31 October 2016.

Place: Forest Farm, Cardiff
Date: 21 October 2016.

[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]

The sound of the snipe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)

Distribution and sightings of the snipe across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).