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 LC    South American Snipe* Id (Atlas):
    Gallinago paraguaiae

Description (10)
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Other Names (World)
South American Snipe, Magellan Snipe, Paraguayan Snipe, Puna Snipe (andina), Andean Snipe (andina), Chilean Puna Snipe (innotata)

Family
Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)

Size
25 - 29 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Vieillot, 1816)

Range (Guide)
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 40,000 - 1,000,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

 
South American Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae) [XC318907]
     by GABRIEL LEITE from C\u00f3rrego Bebedouro, Patroc\u00ednio, Minas Gerais state, Brazil (call)

 
South American Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae) [XC14750]
     by Nick Athanas from Vale do Canal S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo - Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) and perhaps African Snipe (Gallinago nigripennis), and all occasionally considered conspecific. Subspecies andina has often been regarded as full species, and magellanica too may be close to separate species status. Possible subspecies innotata, from R Loa, northern Chile, proposed on basis of densely barred underwing-coverts and on occasion has even been considered separate species.

The following 3 subspecies are recognised:

  • paraguaiae (Vieillot, 1816)   -  Eastern Colombia through Venezuela to the Guianas, and south through eastern Peru and west, central and southern Brazil to northern Argentina and Uruguay; Trinidad and possibly Tobago.
  • andina (Taczanowski, 1875)   -  Andes of northern Peru to north-western Argentina and northern Chile.
  • magellanica (King, PP, 1828)   -  Central Chile and central Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego; Falkland Is.



References
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Files:
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