Pin-tailed Snipe and Swinhoe's Snipe Numbers Rising
Pin-tailed Snipes and Swinhoe's Snipes in the paddy fields are steadily increasing. Both species were all juveniles on this day.
I took two local naturalists who wanted to see some birds on a light circuit of the paddies and coast.
Juvenile Swinhoe's Snipe.
Another Swinhoe's Snipe.
Amami Woodcocks.
Swinhoe's Snipe.
A Swinhoe's Snipe looking tired — perhaps just arrived on migration.
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