Editing Snipe (section)

==Behaviour==
Snipe search for [[invertebrate]]s in the mud with a "[[sewing machine|sewing-machine]]" action of their long bills.  The sensitivity of the bill is caused by filaments belonging to the fifth pair of nerves, which run almost to the tip and open immediately under the soft cuticle in a series of cells; a similar adaptation is found in [[sandpiper]]s; this adaptation gives this portion of the surface of the [[premaxillary|premaxillaries]] a honeycomb-like appearance: with these filaments the bird can sense its food in the mud without seeing it.<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Snipe|last=Newton|first=Alfred|author-link=Alfred Newton}}</ref>