North Dakota · MigratoryWilson's / common snipe

ND Game and Fish's own snipe hunting page regulates the species as one statewide unit with no sub-state zone split, backed by a genuinely strong statewide population. Independent range sourcing (Minnesota Breeding Bird Atlas species account, citing Birds of the World) reports the species reaches some of its highest breeding densities in the grasslands of North Dakota, Manitoba, and Alberta, i.e. the state as a whole, not one corner of it, is core range. That said, breeding snipe depend on the same Prairie Pothole Region marsh/wet-meadow habitat concentrated in the glaciated Missouri Coteau and Drift Prairie (roughly the eastern two-thirds of the state), which is comparatively scarce in the unglaciated Badlands country of the far southwest.