Talk:cyffylog

Etymology - sound

“due to the similarity between the bird's call and the snort of a horse” – Not the bird’s vocal call as such, I think, but rather the very distinctive sound the snipe creates with its tail feathers at dusk by dropping vertically. I would edit the etymology, but I am not totally sure of the biology and whether snipe and woodcock are essentially the same thing. Maybe someone else knows more or could check.
--Caoimhin (talk) 13:02, 26 March 2022 (UTC)