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2.95 (1.9 - 3.9)|
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Note: During all years of the Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas drought conditions persisted and the Atlas range maps for all waterfowl, waterbirds, and wetland-associated species should be viewed as characteristic of distribution and abundance during dry conditions. Read the full drought statement here.
Excerpts Adapted from the Birds of Saskatchewan:
While this shorebird is fairly common in marshy habitat, its secretive habits (with the exception of its audible and usually visible display flight) mean it is under-reported. The hollow sound, called "winnowing,? is produced in flight by the rush of air past the spread tail feathers, and the tremolo effect by the rapidly beating wings (Godfrey 1986). Sometimes you can find this bird sitting on a fence post in the summer sunshine, happily calling wicka-wicka-wicka. The observer then has a chance to admire the snipe's camouflage away from its cryptic background. It nests in North America from the treeline to southern California, northern New Mexico, and northern West Virginia. It winters from the Pacific Coast of Alaska and southern New England to northern South America and the Caribbean (AOU 1998).
It is a bird of fens, bogs, swamps, and other wetlands in the north and of wet meadows and shallow marshes in the south (Smith 1996).
The Snipe is a common summer resident in the subarctic and boreal forest regions, fairly common in wet meadows and shallow marshes of the parklands, and uncommon and local in the grasslands (Smith 1996).
Original text by Roy John. Text adapted by Daniel J. Sawatzky
Read more about the Wilson's Snipe in the Birds of Saskatchewan here.
Recommended citation: Latremouille, L. M. 2025. Wilson's Snipe in Latremouille, L. M., S. L. Van Wilgenburg, C. B. Jardine, D. Lepage, A. R. Couturier, D. Evans, D. Iles, and K. L. Drake (eds.). 2025. The Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Saskatchewan, 2017-2021. Birds Canada. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan https://sk.birdatlas.ca/accounts/speciesaccount.jsp?sp=WISN&lang=en [14 Nov 2025]
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