Common snipe  Gallinago  gallinago

One of the winter visitors birds in Iraq, it could Seen on the banks of the rivers, lakes and marshes and wet grassland crouched in the muddy areas with short bushes near water, that are a good hideout 

photo was taken in one of winter birds survey on the banks of AL- Dagharah river in AL- Diwaniyah governorate winter of 2011