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Common snipe - Wikipedia
Old folk names include "mire snipe", "horse gowk", "heather bleat", and the variant spelling "snite". See snipe for other aspects of the name.
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MIRESNIPE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MIRESNIPE is the common European snipe (Capella gallinago).
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Common snipe - Linnuriik
Latin Gallinago gallinago (L.) Estonian Tikutaja. Also known as: mire snipe, horse gowk, heather bleat, snite. Status in Estonia.
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mire-snipe
ˈmire-snipe Sc. [f. mire n.1 + snipe: cf. ON. m{yacu}ri-sn{iacu}pa (Edda Gl.).] The common snipe, Scolopax gallinago. Also in phr. to catch a mire-snipe, to fall in the mire; hence fig. an accident, mishap (Jam.).c 1450 Holland Howlat 213 The Martoune, the Murcoke, the Myresnype. 1847 Zoologist V. 1...
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mire-snipe, n. meanings, etymology and more
The earliest known use of the noun mire-snipe is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for mire-snipe is from before 1525, in the writing of Richard ...
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Wilson's Snipe Identification - All About Birds
Wilson's Snipes are medium-sized, pudgy shorebirds with short, stocky legs. The bill is straight and very long (several times the length of the head).
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Snipe Loch
In Scots the snipe is variously known as a "bluiter wheep, earn-bleater, heather-bleat, mire-snipe, or moss-bleater."
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Wilson's Snipe | Audubon Field Guide
The snipe is a solitary creature of wet fields and bogs, seldom seen on open mudflats. Flushed from the marsh, it darts away in zigzag flight, uttering harsh ...
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Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) - Thai National Parks
Old folk names include "mire snipe", "horse gowk", "heather bleat", and the variant spelling "snite". See snipe for other aspects of the name. This article ...
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Snipe Bird Facts | Gallinago Gallinago - RSPB
Snipe are medium sized, skulking wading birds with short legs and long, straight bills. Both sexes are mottled brown above, with paler buff stripes on the back.
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Snipe, Gallinago gallinago - Birds - NatureGate - LuontoPortti
Snipes are thrush-sized waders with brown, black and white patterning, and an extremely long bill. Their heads and backs are marked with wide pale lengthwise ...
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mire
▪ I. mire, n.1 (maɪə(r)) Forms: 4–8 myre, 4–6 myr, 4–5 myere, 4 meore, mir, mure, muyre, 5–7 myer, 5–6 moyre, 6 mier, 4– mire. [ME. mire, a. ON. m{yacu}r-r fem. (mod.Icel. m{yacu}ri, Sw. myr, Da. myre, myr):—OTeut. *miuzjâ:—*meuzjâ f. *meus- (cf. OE. méos moss, OHG. mios, MHG. mies), ablaut-var. of ...
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