Whole Snipe (Noun)
Meaning
Common snipe of Eurasia and Africa.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The whole snipe breeds in a wide range of wetland habitats including bogs, marshes, and the edges of lakes and rivers.
- It has been recorded as a vagrant to Australia and New Zealand and a regular migrant to northern Africa.
- Some authorities have considered the Wilson's snipe and the whole snipe to be a single species.
- It has been found in an Arctic tundra as a summer breeder in whole snipe in Africa.
- It appears to be solitary when it forages as whole snipe does not congregate in huge numbers in marshy habitats.