In Asia and Europe, shooting snipe is so difficult that the best marksmen are called ‘snipers’. In New Zealand, the birds save their aerial skills for after dark—a secret acrobatic performance that has been heard but never seen. Capturing them alive requires tactics, a team, and a trip to the subantarctic—so last summer, members of an expedition to the Snares were conscripted for the task. These snipers of a different sort stalked their prey across a weather-beaten island, armed only with butterfly nets.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 146 July - August 2017.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-hunting-of-the-snipe/