A closely related species, the common snipe, breeds throughout much of Eurasia. For thousands of years, people hearing the winnowing of territorial snipe have imagined ghostly beings calling from ...

Snipe produce their characteristic noise through a process called "winnowing." The noise is produced as air passes through the stiff feathers of the snipe's tail. The snipe varies the tone of the ...

Wilson’s snipe are common out around the wetlands of the high desert. During breeding season, the males do this thing with their tail feathers, called winnowing, where they fly really fast and ...

Snipe noise is unique and unforgettable, and snipe are conspicuous because of the noise they make, an otherworldly winnowing noise, like air passing through a filter of some kind. This is exactly ...

The snipe’s typical courtship habit of flying high in circles then taking shallow dives to produce a winnowing, bleating sound by vibrating its tail feathers has given the bird a variety of ...