Species profile
Magellanic Snipe
Gallinago magellanica
Quick answer
Breeding regions are SA. Breeding subregions are wet grassland of temperate s South America: c Chile and c Argentina to Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Is..
- Scientific name
- Gallinago magellanica
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Genus
- Gallinago
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
Recording Magellanic Snipe in your journal
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