Japanese Snipe 'Off Course'
he Japanese snipe has been observed on the New Zealand shore about 15 times in the past century, but Alex L. Scott of Palmerston North claims to be the first to photograph one. He took these pictures on the Manawatu River estuary on December 12, 1999. The Japanese snipe breeds in Siberia and Japan but regularly migrates to southern Australia or Tasmania for the summer. In
New Zealand the bird was associating with flocks of other migrants, including eastern bartailed godwit, and a rare pectoral sandpiper. One feeding godwit firmly made the snipe keep its distance, however. Alex Scott hoped the bird would stay all summer but the migratory bird habitat on the Manawatu River estuary is becoming increasingly disturbed by jetskis and dune buggies, he says.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 296, 1 May 2000, Page 12
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