Q. I’ve been hearing a bird this spring, usually near dusk, that makes a kind of creepy, haunting sound. I thought it was a whippoorwill, but when I pointed out the sound last weekend by the campfire, ...

Legends, lore, and other tales often have a basis of truth. A common, close-to-home example that is based upon an animal exists in American folklore. However, the folklore and related activities have ...

I went on a snipe hunt last week at a local park, but I wasn’t nearly as successful as last October. Back then, I shot two of the medium-sized chunky gamebird at once — with my camera. Taking their ...

My first memory of snipe was from Girl Scout camp. There was this myth (or threat) of going on a snipe hunt. The Urban Dictionary describes a snipe hunt as “A North-American prank and rite of passage ...

For more than 170 years, people have been duped into “snipe hunting.” A rite of passage for campers and scouts, the mark is led into darkened woods and instructed to remain motionless while holding an ...

IT is disputed whether the snipe's drumming—a curious noise, suggestive of a miniature threshing machine—is made by the bird with its wings or by its tail, or by both wings and tail. Some recent ...