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WetlandGround nestMedium · 252 g
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This 30–32 cm long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Its upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned with dark brown and buff, and gold edges to the feathers form lines down its back, which are not as sharply defined as in most snipe species.. The belly is buff with brown barring on the flanks. The horn-coloured bill is long, straight and fairly robust. The legs and feet are yellowish-green. The sexes are similar, and immature birds differ only in showing pale fringes on the wing coverts.
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When to see the Fuegian Snipe
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Fuegian Snipe
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Argentina.
About the Fuegian Snipe
The Fuegian snipe also known as the cordilleran snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in south-central Chile and Argentina south to Tierra del Fuego. It is mainly sedentary, but the Tierra del Fuego population winters in mainland Chile.
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Easily confused with
Wood SnipeGallinago nemoricolaThe wood snipe is a species of snipe which breeds in the Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and southern China.
Imperial SnipeGallinago imperialisThis 29–31 cm (11–12 in) long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader.
Madagascar SnipeGallinago macrodactylaThis is a large and heavy snipe, between 29–32 cm long with a stocky body and relatively short legs.
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