Solitary Snipe

The solitary snipe is a stocky wader, a heavy snipe 29–31 cm long with relatively short legs for a wader. The upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned in medium brown with whitish feather edges forming lines down the back. The breast is ginger-brown and the belly white with brown barring on the flanks, and the long, straight, fairly slender bill is brown and black, with yellowish-olive to yellowish-brown legs (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in mountain bogs and river valleys above the timberline, typically at about 2,400 to 5,000 m. It gives a hoarse kensh call on take-off and a far-carrying chok-a-chok-a call in display, and its flight is relatively slow and heavy (Wikipedia, general species account).