Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata)

Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. NE Brazil

giant_snipe
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. NE Brazil

giant_snipe
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. NE Brazil

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Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Guyana


Identification & Behavior: ~11.5 cm (4.5 in). The Giant Snipe has a patterned head that includes rusty and black stripes. The upperparts are also patterned showing rusty stripes on the back and cinnamon rump. The underparts are barred and speckled with less barring on the center of the belly. As with other snipes, it favors wet grassy and shrubby habitats near water. It is large and not known to overlap with any of the large Andean snipes.

Status: The Giant Snipe is poorly known in Peru. Evidence of its occurrence in Peru comes from voice recordings of this species in Pampas del Heath in extreme southeast Peru. It also occurs in Br and Bo.

Name in Spanish: Becasina Gigante.

Sub-species: Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata gigantea), Temminck 1826.

Meaning of Name: Gallinago= L. Galli=hen chicken and ago= similar. undulata L. undulate, undulata, undulatus, unda= wave, wavy.

See more of the Family Scolopacidae   peru aves

Distribution Map
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References:

    • Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum.  http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 06/01/2015.