Magellanic Snipe
Gallinago magellanica(King, PP, 1828)
English (US) Magellanic Snipe
The Magellanic Snipe (Gallinago magellanica) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Scolopacidae (Sandpipers and Allies) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds from central Chile and central Argentina southward to Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands; southernmost populations are migratory, nonbreeding distribution unclear but reaches UruguayRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Gallinago magellanica
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Magellanic Snipe
- Described by
- (King, PP, 1828)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Scolopax Magellanicus
- Described by
- (King, PP, 1828)
- Type locality
- Straits of Magellan.
- Original description
- The Zoological Journal 4, no.13 p.93
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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