Nebraska · MigratoryWilson's / common snipe

NGPC's own Birds of Nebraska Online species account (Silcock & Jorgensen 2025) gives a real three-part regional pattern that changes by season rather than a single static hotspot. Breeding is documented "apparently regularly north of the Platte and North Platte rivers in the Sandhills and Panhandle, east to Holt, Knox, Antelope, and Pierce Cos" -- though the account is explicit that breeding status even within this range is poorly defined and documented nests are few. Migration stopover concentrations are highest in the eastern Rainwater Basin by a wide margin (130 at Bluewing WMA-area sites in a single Apr 1997 count, repeated 80-90-bird counts there in other years) alongside a distinct western concentration at Scotts Bluff Co's Highway 26 Playa (156 birds, Sep 2022). Wintering is geographically the narrowest and best-documented signal: Wilson's Snipe's own winter section describes regular wintering "especially in areas with warm water springs that provide soft mud for probing," with multiple Jan-Feb reports concentrated in Scotts Bluff, Keith, Lincoln, and Lancaster Cos and the North Platte, NE area itself the single named wintering hub (25+ at Hiatt Memorial Wetland, Jan 2014) -- the same North Platte River Valley corridor the sibling Virginia Rail account independently names as that species' own regular winter range.