Common snipe
Clutch of 4 bird eggs collected on April 9th 1948. Record card reads: ‘nest slight, built mainly of marsh grass, cleverly concealed in tussock of grass. N.B. this nest was stumbled up[on] quite accidentally.’
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 46/2010/100
- Collection Class
- Birds
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- M, C S (from the collection of)
- Common Name
- common snipe
- Simple Name
- bird: eggs
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-); Modern (1900-)
