Bar-tailed godwit. Common Snipe. Summer visitor from west Europe and west Africa, winter visitor from Faeroe Islands, Iceland and northern Scotland. They are widespread as a breeding species in the UK, with particularly high densities on northern uplands but lower numbers in southern lowlands (especially south west England). Snipe are brown, with an intricate pattern of black and gold bars, and a stripy brown and gold head. Black-tailed Godwit. They have short, greyish-green legs and a very long, straight bill. flight call. 0:00 / Common Snipe (flight call) flight call, male, song. A - Z. They forage in soft mud, probing or picking up food by sight. BROWSE NOW >>> Snipe. South Island snipe became extinct in or soon after 1964 following the ship rat invasion of Taukihepa. Apart from a possible record from Dusky Sound, Fiordland, in 1773, the only sites where naturalists saw the South Island snipe were Jacky Lee Island between 1897 & 1911, and Taukihepa between 1913 & 1964. 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