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Summary 
An extensive field check was made of snipe nabitat in those 
parts of western Canada (exclusing most of British Columbia) 
which are accessible by road, 
Nesting snipe were found to be very scarce in the whole Short- 
grass Prairie region, widely distributed and locally common 
in the Parklands, local and uncommon in the Boreal Forest 
country, and consistently common in the only area of forest- 
tundra transition for which data are available, 
If further investigations confirm that the area of greatest 
abundance is in the forest-tundra transition, then weather 
conditions and predation appear to be the major factors 
influencing the breeding snipe population -- habitat 
conditions remaining fairly stable, 
Although drainage and other human activities may have been 
responsible in the past for reduction of the population of 
nesting snipe in the southern part of the Prairie Provinces, 
the population now in that area is so low and scattered that 
no appreciable further threat is imposed by human activities 
if, as now seems likely, the principal nesting populations 
are not there but in the North. 
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