This is a family of birds with short bills that forages on mudflats and wetlands. Plovers are from the family of Charadriidae. This family has 66 birds given the various common names. Unlike birds with long bills that prod into the mud to locate their food, Plovers hunt by sight. One characteristic that the birds would scurry for short pace to grab it's prey.

Plovers are plumb breasted birds which are 15-30 cm in size. They have long wings and moderately long legs with short neck. The bill is shorter than their head. Most species are plain brown, grey or sand coloured. Almost all belies are whitish
Plovers in wide open mudflats have little concerns for approaching human. The safe distances and open free terrain give them that assurances. Then there are those Plovers foraging in wetlands among grasses. Their behaviour then, are slightly different. They could be startled by sudden appearances of moving objects. Here they would display to he second trait. They would stay absolutely still and wait for the next move. in this page again I have narrowed down to birds bearing the name "Plover"

1. Black-bellied Plover

2. Kentish Plover

3. Long-billed Plover

4. Malaysian Plover

5. Oriental Plover

6. Pacific Golden Plover

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, dark streaks on the chest and pale under parts. Male, female, and juvenile Snipes all appear very similar, although males have longer tail feathers and shorter bills.
Did you know snipe are a migratory bird much like their cousin the beloved woodcock?
 

The Common Snipe is an oddly shaped wader with an oddly shaped wader with an oversized bill. Let us start of by comparing the Birds. The Common Snipe is can be distinguished from the other two Snipes, Swinhoe and Pin-tailed Snipes .

The underwings of Common Snipe are much different from both Pin-tailed and Swinhoe Snipe by having more extensive amount of white on the barring of underwing coverts. Another diagnostic feature of the Common Snipe is in the tail feathers. Unlike in Swinhoe Snipe, the tail feathers of Common Snipe are all equally broad. Compared to Common Snipe, both the Swinhoe and Pin-ailed Snipes have much shorter tail on average. The tail only slightly extends beyond the primary projections.

Despite a drab appearance from a distance, these skulking birds are intricately patterned to break up their outline in their marshy habitat. They are stocky birds with large yellowish legs and unwebbed feet.

Snipes are beautifully camouflaged above, with distinctive pale stripes on the wings and back. The head and face are striped, with a dark crown and a dark streak through each eye, making their already impressive bill look even longer. Their underpants are almost pure white, although barring on the flanks and chest merge with their darker upper parts.


Snipe search for invertebrate in the month with a sewing machine action of their long bills the sensitivity of the bill is caused by filament belonging to the fifth pair of nurse which runs almost to the tip and open immediately under the soft particle in a series of cells similar adaptation is found in Piper this adaptation gift is portion of the surface of the Para maxillary

Snipes can be found in various type of wet marshy setting including bog swamp snipe can be found in various type of wet marshy setting including bog swamps wet metals along River coastline and ponds snipe avoid setting in areas with dance vegetation or other seek marshy area with patchy covers to hide from predators.

Snipe feed mainly on insects lava Other invertebrate prey inside snail crustacean and worms the snipe bills allow the very tip to remain close while the slurp up the invertebrates In Malaysia one of their favorite food banks are maggots nesting inside dropped cow dung Very often seen with a net work of perforations on the surface

On Pintail Snipe, the outer eight pairs of tail feathers (sometimes six to nine pairs) are all less than 2 mm wide. On Swinhoe Snipe, only the outermost pair is narrow, varying between 2 and 4 mm.

On a lighter note - A snipe Hunt is a type of practical joke of fools errand in existence in North America as early as the 1840s. In which an unsuspecting newcomer is dubbed into trying to catch and elusive non-existence animal called a snipe

Then getting serious - Snipe hunting is a real and difficult sport. The target that the hunter is going for is called a "Snipe". People who successfully shot a Snipe were considered to be great marksmen. It’s considered to be a bit of an off-sport. Only a handful of hunters throughout the country pursue Snipe Hunting. they are skittish and launch off at lightning speeds at great distances. The ultimate hack to hunting them is that no they always circle back to where they were first flushed. So with a little patience and some time, you can close the “sniper” gap.

From the family of Scolopacidae comes a big group of birds called "Sandpipers". These are birds seen on the shores, mudflats and sometimes foraging in wetlands as well. Sandpipers has long bodies, long legs and narrow wings. There are species which could be as small as 12cm to those as large as 66 cm. Unfortunately difficult for bird watchers, they all have dull plumage, cryptic brown, grey or streak pattern. Most times the bird rest in open area
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While Sandpipers could be seen everywhere on the coastlines around the world. Most of them breeds in the northern hemisphere with scarcely some in tropical region

From the list of 9 Sandpipers shown on this page, they come from 3 different species of birds . They all get the common name " Sandpipers"

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