A new study -- using high speed video and feathers bought on eBay -- shows that when the male snipe sticks out his outer tail feathers, they flutter like flags in the wind, producing a highly ...

Most people have heard of the old "snipe hunt" ruse used to initiate greenhorns to the outdoors. The gag consists of outfitting the nimrod with paper sack and flashlight and then sending the fool into ...

AS WE arrive at the ancient Festival of Imbolc, that time when our ancestors celebrated the near passing of winter and the beginning of spring around what is now the Feast day of St Brigid, February 1 ...

In many parts of Pennsylvania, outdoor pranksters still play a joke known as a snipe hunt on naïve newbies. Sometime after sunset the pranksters announce that the group is going on a snipe hunt. Some ...

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – If you read all the way to the bottom of news articles about setting of early migratory bird hunting seasons, you saw those names. Woodcock, snipe, rail, gallinule, moorhen. What ...

Most of us have heard the age-old story about going out on a “snipe hunt,” a rite of passage meant to be a joke. Here’s how it typically works: The snipe hunt leaders give the unsuspecting victim a ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Believe it or not, September 1 is the first day of meteorological fall. Sunday also marks the beginning of dove and common snipe hunting seasons and the first day of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CASPER — His boots squished in the muck as Chris Madsen trudged through the marsh along the edge of a large pond. He stopped and looked around at the ...

Last week, Sundaravel Palanivelu was in perplexity over a snipe. He was not sure what to call it — common or pintail. Studying the markers from a photo he had clicked of the migratory snipe, he was up ...