The decline of the jacksnipe in southern Wisconsin. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold (Complete Bibliography)] Reference
My best stretch back then was 17 jacksnipe with 25 shells. From Wordnik.com. [Feathers vs Clay] Reference
BTW If you think doves are hard try hunting jacksnipe around a marsh. From Wordnik.com. [Feathers vs Clay] Reference
When you are through work it is nearly dark and you can ride out on the boulevard by the sea and throw clay targets with a hand trap against this gale and they will dip and jump and rise into strange angles like a jacksnipe in the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
How the jacksnipe rose with a jump and you hit him on the second swerve and had to wade out into a slough after him and brought him in wet, holding him by the bill, as proud as a bird dog, and you can remember all the snipe since in many places. From Wordnik.com. [Hemingway on Hunting] Reference
Of course there's the fun of it -- the 'pats,' the quail, the jacksnipe, the 'cock. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Bobby Orde] Reference
The grebes glided about with new feather-collars around their necks; and the jacksnipe were gathering straws for their nests. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonderful Adventures of Nils] Reference
Blackbirds of two or three kinds are found in the marshes, also killdeer, jacksnipe and the ever active and interesting spotted sandpipers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference
Five-year close seasons should immediately be enacted for the following species: quail, woodcock, jacksnipe and all species of shore or "beach" birds. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Wireworms and their adult forms, click beetles, are devoured by the northern phalarope, woodcock, jacksnipe, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Crayfishes, which are a pest in rice and corn fields in the South and which injure levees, are favorite food of the black-necked stilt, and several other shorebirds feed upon them, notably the jacksnipe, robin snipe, spotted sandpiper, upland plover, and killdeer. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
11 jacksnipe stomachs contained an average of 37 locusts each. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Ofer: Norma - very well, I'm sure there ... jacksnipe: to thesystemworks i didn't say ... starkie: I wonder if catholics boycotted their ... st. leger.norma: A Doctor from Sharif hospital ... st. leger.norma: Bock; agreed, but he who pays. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Of the birds, I may mention 12 varieties of pigeons, 2 of sandgrouse, 2 of partridges, 8 of quail, peafowl, jungle-fowl, spenfowl, bustard, floriken (a kind of bustard), woodcock, woodsnipe, common snipe, jacksnipe, painted snipe, widgeon, 4 kinds of teal, and 5 of wild ducks. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
His father came back to him in the fall of the year, or in the early spring when there had been jacksnipe on the prairie, or when he saw shocks of corn, or when he saw a lake, or if he ever saw a horse and buggy, or when he saw, or heard, wild geese, or in a duck blind; remembering the time an eagle dropped through the whirling snow to strike a canvas-covered decoy, rising, his wings beating, the talons caught in the canvas. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Stories] Reference
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