Scolopax minor
HOW TO IDENTIFY:
* Length: 8.25 inches
* Dumpy, short-legged, short-tailed, rounded-winged shorebird
* Explosive takeoff when flushed, wings make twittering sound in flight
* Very long bill
* Very large, dark eye set high in head
* Buff-brown head, breast and belly buff to pale cinnamon
* Black nape crossed by pale lines
* Dark eyeline and auricular stripe
* Gray-brown back, with black and chestnut feathering interspersed between two pale Vs
* Upperwings reddish-brown; underwings brown, with rusty wing linings
* Rusty rump; dark rectrices tipped gray/white
* Found in woodlands and shrubby fields
* Sexes similar
* Juvenile similar to adult
Similar species:
Common Snipe is more slender and browner, without the crossbars on nape. In flight, the Common Snipe has much more pointed wings.
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