"I'M NOT PUDGY!"

Wilson's Snipe - 5 Photos

From my brief research on the Wilson's Snipe, I discovered this description (from a reliable birding source, I may add) - "medium-sized, pudgy shorebirds with short, stocky legs". 

Medium, shorebird, short stocky legs are all accurate descriptive terms but honestly "pudgy"? :)  The Sora, on the other hand, is described (same source) only as a little secretive bird. The Snipe appears to be somewhat smaller & heavier than the Sora but only slightly. 

So on behalf of all Wilson's Snipes out there, here is photo proof that you are not pudgy, which by definition is "slightly fat". The photos below are of a Wilson's Snipe that decided to perch on some very dead grasses/marsh reeds (basically weightless) and although the wind, at the time, was fairly gusty, you can see that there is not a hint of the perch collapsing or even bending under the weight of a "little" Snipe. :)

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