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Common Snipe drumming display flight
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Orkney - Deerness and Tankerness
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) making a drumming sound with the outermost tail feathers during its territorial display flight. This was taken on the Mull Head Local Nature Reserve, Deerness, Orkney mainland.
07 July 2019
Snipe drumming, Shapinsay
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Orkney - Shapinsay
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) drumming, Shapinsay, Orkney. Snipe vibrate their outer tail feathers to make an oscillating sound called drumming used in courtship or territorial display in the spring and summer time.
14 July 2015
Snipe drumming, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) drumming, Mires of Funzie, Fetlar
22 June 2014
Snipe drumming
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Shetland - Fetlar
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) drumming in flight over the Mires of Funzie RSPB Nature Reserve, Fetlar. Drumming makes a characteristic sound using the tail feathers and is part of the Snipe's display flight.
16 July 2013
Nest of Common Snipe with 4 eggs, Fenwick Moor
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East Renfrewshire
Nest of Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) with a clutch of 4 eggs. Photo taken by Stephen Inglis on Fenwick Moor in East Renfrewshire
20 May 2016
Snipe nest with 4 eggs in Turner Moor, Drymen
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CEP - Loch Lomond
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) nest with 4 eggs in Turner Moor, Drymen. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar.
01 June 1974
Common Snipe, Tiree
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Tiree - Ceann a' Mhara, Balephuil, Hynish and Balemartine
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Tiree
10 May 2017
Common snipe nest, Hougharry, North Uist
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CEP - North Uist
Nest of a Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Hougharry, North Uist. Scanned from slide taken by CE Palmar in 1965.
06 July 1965
Common Snipe, Loch Kinnordy
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Loch of Kinnordy and Loch of Lintrathen
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) foraging in cut reed bed, Loch Kinnordy
18 February 2017
Common Snipe, Loch Kinnordy
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Loch of Kinnordy and Loch of Lintrathen
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) foraging in cut reed bed, Loch Kinnordy