noun. Any of several shorebirds of the genus Limnodromus that breed in far northern latitudes and have brownish plumage and a long straight bill.

noun. The red-breasted or gray-backed snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus: a popular and now a book name of this species, which was formerly locally (Long Island and vicinity) called German or Dutch snipe, to distinguish it from the so-called English snipe, Gallinago wilsoni.

noun. The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback.

noun. Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.

noun. shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe

"While 20 species occur regularly along the sand flats and mud flats of the estuary, four species, the willet, dowitcher, western sandpiper and marbled godwit, account for a large part of the bird population throughout the year."