How many of you have ever been on a snipe hunt? A few of us who grew up in the Midwest or East probably have had a session in the woods at night holding onto a burlap sack and calling for a snipe. I ...

The snipe, however, is no mythical creature. It's a real bird. Similar in appearance to an American woodcock of eastern states, the common snipe inhabits the marshes of western North America and ...