From Opus

Gallinago jamesoni

[edit] Identification

Length 30-32 cm.
Upperparts, head and neck are streaked; coloured warm brown and buff with gold edges to the feathers, forming lines down the back. The belly is white, barred brown.
It has a long, straight and fairly robust horn-coloured bill, and yellowish-green legs and feet.
Sexes similar
Immatures show pale fringes on the wing coverts.

[edit] Distribution

South America: found in the Andes of Colombia to western Venezuela and eastern Bolivia.

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species.^[1]

Two subspecies are recognised by some authors: G. j. jamesoni and G. j. chapmani^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Marshy areas where grassland and forest meet.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

It inserts its long bill deep into the mud to extract insects and worms.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

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