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WetlandScrapeMedium · 192 g
What the Noble Snipe sounds like
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This 30–32.5 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 distinct lines down its back. The belly is white with brown barring on the flanks. The horn-coloured bill is very long and straight. The legs and feet are greyish-green. The sexes are similar, but females are longer billed; immature birds differ only in showing pale fringes on the wing coverts. The noble snipe has a clear melodious call.
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When to see the Noble Snipe
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Noble Snipe
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Noble Snipe
The noble snipe is a small stocky wader. It breeds in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela above or just below the treeline. It is entirely sedentary.
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Easily confused with
Swinhoe's SnipeGallinago megalaIt is identifiable as a Gallinago snipe by its cryptically patterned black, brown, buff and white plumage, but it is not easily distinguished from Latham's and pin-tailed snipe in the field.
Puna SnipeGallinago andinaThe puna snipe is 22.5 to 25 cm (8.9 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 65 to 105 g (2.3 to 3.7 oz).
Giant SnipeGallinago undulataThis is the largest snipe at 36 to 47 cm (14 to 19 in) in length.
Side by side: Noble Snipe vs Swinhoe's Snipe
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