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- African Snipe searching for food in the water at Marievale
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- The African Snipe can usually be found around marshes and wetlands and is relatively common.
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- The colouring on the African Snipe is beautiful and practical as it can be very well camouflaged in the grass and reeds along side the marsh or lake.
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- A pair of African Snipe basking in the sun at Marievale.
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- When displaying the male African Snipe creates a drumming sound with its tail feathers when in flight.
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- The African Snipe’s long bill is for reaching small invertebrates and vertebrates by probing the soft muddy marsh or lake bed.
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- The camouflage of this African Snipe was superb. I did not see it until it moved in the reeds at Marievale.
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- Flexible mandiles – this African Snipe is bending its upper mandible.
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- Painted Snipe on the banks of the Chobe River
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- Painted Snipe on the banks of the Chobe River
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