• Welcome to BirdForum, the internet's largest birding community with thousands of members from all over the world. The forums are dedicated to wild birds, birding, binoculars and equipment and all that goes with it.

    Please register for an account to take part in the discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.
ZEISS DTI thermal imaging cameras. For more discoveries at night, and during the day.

Puna Snipe - BirdForum Opus


Stub.png This article is incomplete.
This article is missing one or more sections. You can help the BirdForum Opus by expanding it.
Stub.png


Gallinago andina
>Photo © by Stanley Jones
Ondores, Junín, Peru, August 2017

Identification

Distribution

Andes of northern Peru to Bolivia, northwestern Argentina and northern Chile (and extreme southern Ecuador?).

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Two subspecies are recognized[1].

  • G. a. andina - Andes of Peru (and possibly extreme southern Ecuador), northern Chile (Tarapacá), Bolivia, and northwestern Argentina (south to Catamarca)
  • G. a. innotata - Andes of northern Chile (Antofagasta)

Habitat

Behaviour

References

  1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, S. M. Billerman, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2021. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2021. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

Recommended Citation

External Links

GSearch checked for 2020 platform.

Back
Top