The Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy with a single trapeze for the crew and symmetrical spinnaker.

By comparison with its main rivals, the Fireball and Hornet, the Jacksnipe is lightly canvassed, which makes it ideal for lighter crews, but this combined with the large underwater planing surfaces leads to a boat which performs better in stronger than in lighter winds - a characteristic of many later 'skiff' designs.

The Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a small stocky wader.

JACK SNIPE Lymnocryptes minimus.

Etymology The name could appropriately refer to the bird, Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus, however in Scots the word can refer to a featureless place, lacking significant characteristics, something long and thin, or a boggy place.

Jack Snipe will squat down and not flush from cover until an intruder is quite close.

It is also Worcestershire's most important site for jack snipe, and more than 170 other bird species have been recorded here.

It was a jack snipe, bobbing rhythmically on green legs in the shallow water.

In some species, such as the Jack Snipe, the divided stripes reconnect again behind the eye.

The Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a small stocky wader.

Jack Snipe can be secretive in their non-breeding areas and are difficult to observe, being well camouflaged in their habitat.

"My cousin, Jack Snipe, can," replied Longbill promptly.

A lake has formed in the bottom of the quarry, attracting birds including green sandpiper, jack snipe, little grebe and common pochard to overwinter there.

Visitors belonging to uncommon species of wader include Jack Snipe, Greenshank and Ruff.

'Jack Snipe' has white petals which contrast handsomely with their dark lemon-yellow cups, while for sheer daintiness 'Hawera' is hard to beat.

The drumming of the Jack Snipe (Limnocryptes minimus) has been likened to the sound made by a cantering or galloping horse.

Notable species include Brent Goose, Jack Snipe, Spotted Redshank and Greenshank.

It was probably for this reason that we missed some of the more esoteric waders like broad-billed sandpiper and jack snipe which are known to nest in this area.

JACK SNIPE Lymnocryptes minimus.

Hogganfield Loch is now part of a public park and bird sanctuary - the rare Jack Snipe as it travels from Siberia has been seen in the park.

This genus contains the majority of the world's snipe species, the other two extant genera being Coenocorypha, with two species, and Lymnocryptes, the Jack Snipe.

Birds found here include many wetland species such as Reed and Sedge Warbler and in winter occasional Jack Snipe amongst large numbers of Common Snipe.

Great Northern Diver and Jack Snipe are winter visitors, and in summer Cuckoo, Whinchat, Whitethroat and Twite breed on the island.

Mysterious events begin to occur when Mrs. Mullet, Buckshaw's housekeeper and cook, discovers a dead jack snipe on the porch with a Penny Black stamp pierced through its beak.

The Jack Snipe is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

As had the Attapaka and earlier American Indian tribes, he often came to the future town site to hunt deer, ducks, geese, pheasant, cache-cache (Jack Snipe), papabottes, and other game.

It is a parent of the Cyclamineus Group of hybrid daffodil cultivars, which includes such popular varieties as 'February Gold', 'Jack Snipe' and 'Tête à Tête'.

She controlled a link with the Foolamancer Jack Snipe and the Lookamancer Misty, then later a link with the Croakamancer Wanda and the Dirtmancer Sizemore.

The RSPB reserve's hides, including one named in honour of the comedian Eric Morecambe, are excellent for spotting black-tailed godwits, common and green sandpipers, and the diminutive jack snipe.

The Jack Snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus) is a small stocky wader.

JACK SNIPE Lymnocryptes minimus.

Etymology The name could appropriately refer to the bird, Snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus, however in Scots the word can refer to a featureless place, lacking significant characteristics, something long and thin, or a boggy place.

Especially in freezing weather, the disused cress-beds can yield waders: most often Snipe Gallinago gallinago, but also Redshank Tringa totanus and Green Sandpiper Tringa ochropus and, more rarely, Jack Snipe Lymnocryptes minimus and Dunlin Calidris alpina.