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Definition of jack snipe in English: jack snipenoun 1A small dark Eurasian snipe. Lymnocryptes minima, family Scolopacidae Example sentencesExamples - Spotted redshank share their forest-marsh nesting grounds with wood sandpipers, greenshank, whimbrel, jack snipe and broad-billed sandpipers.
- Smallest of snipes, the jack snipe has been declining in Norfolk in recent years.
- 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.
- There are two close relations, of which the jack snipe is smaller and the great snipe very slightly larger.
- A jack snipe, a rare wading bird, has been seen.
- 1.1North American Any wader similar to the jack snipe, 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.
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