Habitat
Dense vegetation and muddy areas, including grassy and sedge-covered marshes and swamps, muddy shores of lakes and watercourses, flooded fields and sometimes rice-paddies. Breeds in grassy swamp with dry hummocks. From sea-level - 2,700 m.
Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010) and decreasing.
Status VU
Conversion of wetland habitat to rice cultivation and hunting are the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Madagascar Snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla) [XC623753]
by id from Bemanevika, Bealanana District, Mahajanga Province, Madagascar (flight call)
Madagascar Snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla) [XC162415]
by Mike Nelson from Mananara Lodge, Anjozorobe, Madagascar (call, flight call)
Nest
A depression in a dry hummock, scantily lined with grass, placed in a dense tuft of grass in or adjacent to marshland.
Subspecies
Has been treated as conspecific with Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) and Noble Snipe (Gallinago nobilis), and might form part of Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) superspecies.