This 1cy bird was found on September 28th 2011 at Lower Moors, St. Mary's and it was seen at least until Febuary 25th 2012.
Some comparative and instructive footage of the first-winter Wilson's
Snipe with Common Snipe (including nominate and faroeensis-types) from
the ISBG hide at Lower Moors, St Mary's, Isles of Scilly. Video by
Ashley Fisher.
Record footage of the juv-1W bird that was originally found by James
Lidster on October 11 2007 at St.Mary's, Scilly- at the time, only the second record for
Britain. Due to intensive observation of this bird and other snipe on
site, I was fortunate in finding a further three delicata. Although this
footage is rather poor in quality (filmed using a compact digital
camera through my telescope) it does show the important underwing
features quite well.
The bird was seen at least until April 16th 2008.
It was filmed by Ashley Fisher on November 30th 2007.
This bird was first heard at Vihtasilta, Laukaa (Central-Finland) in 2008. It was on location again in 2009, but not until April 22nd 2010 the bird was identified.
Janne Aalto made this video and has this story about the bird
It was found by locals Juha Rahkonen and Kristiina Nyholm already in
2008!!!
They first thought it was a Tengmalm's Owl but then realized it
was a strange snipe. They thought it had something wrong with its
tail-feathers.
Then on the next summer it was back, and they started to
wonder how the sound was still the same. Tero Linjama visited the place
already then and tried to record it but it was silent.
Then in 2009 Tero
had read that Wilson's Snipe had a call like Tengmalm's Owl. Luckily the
bird came again next spring and then Tero recorded it and the rest is
history...
Some of the sound-recordings on the bird can be heard here
