Dutch Birding volume 37 (2015) no 3

Displaying Great Snipe at Broekhuizen in April 2015

From 25 to 28 April 2015, a Great Snipe Gallinago media was regularly displaying while foraging at Broekhuizen, Limburg, the Netherlands. It was the first time the species' song was heard since at least 1884, when it became extinct as a breeding bird. Each of the songs lasted 2-3 sec and they were slightly shorter with fewer notes at start and finish than what is usually heard at breeding sites in Poland and Sweden. In the Nether­lands, the species became rare on passage in the 20th century with 38 records in 1977-2013, of which 15 in April-June, 22 in July-October and one in January.

Mariet Verbeek, Ellenberg 48, 5872 AP Broekhuizen, Nederland
(a.m.c.a.verbeekkpnplanet.nl)
Arnoud B van den Berg, Duinlustparkweg 98, 2082 EG Santpoort-Zuid, Nederland
(arnoud.b.vandenberggmail.com)