Talk:Great snipe

The Magicans' Land
Weird, this page is mentioned in a book:


 * “Are you sure that’s a real bird? It sounds like something from Lewis Carroll.”
 * “‘Some have been recorded to fly nonstop for forty-eight hours over 6,760 kilometers.’ I’m quoting here.”
 * “From Wikipedia.”
 * But still. He looked over her shoulder. The great snipe was a plump little wading bird, roughly egg-shaped, with a big long bill and zigzaggy brown stripes, like a not particularly exotic seashell. It didn’t look like a speed demon.
 * “‘Female great snipe are, on average, significantly larger than the male,’” Plum said.
 * “We’d need something to base the spell on, like some great snipe DNA. At least the first time we did it. I don’t think we can do the transformation based on an image from a Wikipedia entry.”
 * “Are you sure? They have it in hi-res.”

BeniBela (talk) 19:51, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Excellent! Good find, BeniBela. This is a notoriously difficult bird to see, hiding quietly in long vegetation. In the UK, where it's very rare, sometimes a line of birders will walk up a field to flush the bird in the hope of getting a flight view before it plunges back into cover. There was one in Yorkshire a couple of years ago that hadn't read the book and wandered within a metre of its admirers, as shown in this blog. Unfortunately, it hadn't read the book about cats either... Jimfbleak - talk to me?  06:20, 25 June 2016 (UTC)