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| Gallinago paraguaiae Vieillot, 1816 |
The South American Snipe or Magellan Snipe, Gallinago paraguaiae, is a small, stocky wader. Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( May 10, 1748 - 1831 was a French Ornithologist. Year 1816 ( MDCCCXVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Waders, called shorebirds in North America (where "wader" is used to refer to long-legged wading Birds such as Storks and Its taxonomic position is complicated, sometimes treated as a race of Common Snipe, or split into two species, with the Andean population as Puna Snipe. The Common Snipe or Fantail Snipe ( Gallinago gallinago) is a small stocky shorebird. The Andes form the world's longest exposed Mountain range. They lie as a continuous chain of highland along the western coast of South America.
This small snipe breeds in most of South America away from the Pacific coast and eastern Brazil, and also the Falkland Islands, Trinidad and possibly Tobago The nominate lowland race G. A snipe is any of nearly 20 wading bird species in three genera in the family Scolopacidae. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth 's Oceanic divisions |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld Trinidad ( Spanish: " Trinity " is the largest and most populous of the two major islands and Tobago is the smaller of the two main islands that make up the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. p. paraguaiae is resident, but southern G. p. magellanicae migrates north in winter, abandoning Tierra del Fuego atogether, and the Andean G. Bird migration refers to the regular seasonal journeys undertaken by many species of Birds Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability Tierra del Fuego ( Spanish for " Land of Fire " in English tiˈɛərə dɛl ˈfweɪgoʊ] Spanish ˈtjerað̞elˈfweɰo is an Archipelago p. andina moves to lower ground.
The breeding habitat is wet grassy savannah for the northern form, peat bogs for magellanicae, and boggy rivers for andina. The nest is a well-hidden depression on the ground. Both parents incubate the two buff eggs for about 19 days to hatching, the precocial young leaving the nest soon after hatching. In Biology, the term precocial refers to species in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching
The adult South American Snipe is 27-29 cm in length and weighs 110 g. It has short greenish-grey legs and a very long straight dark bill. The body is mottled brown on top and pale underneath. There is a dark stripe through the eye, with light stripes above and below it. The wings are pointed. In northern South America, it is difficult to distinguish in the field from wintering Common Snipe, although they can be separated in the hand.
G. p. magellanicae, which breeds southwards from central Argentina and central Chile is longer-winged, warmer and more buff in colour than the northern race, and G. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the p. andina of the high Andes from southern Peru to northwest Argentina is distinctive, being small, short-winged and yellow-legged with pale to whitish underwings. Peru (Perú Piruw Piruw officially the Republic of Peru ( reˈpuβlika del peˈɾu is a country in western South America.
South American Snipes forage in soft mud, probing or picking up food by sight. They mainly eat insects and earthworms, also plant material.
The male performs a "winnowing" display during courtship, flying high in circles and then taking shallow dives to produce a distinctive sound. Drumming (also called bleating) is a sound produced by Snipe as part of their courtship display flights The call is a rasping tssk.
References
- BirdLife International (2004). Gallinago paraguaiae. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Events 330 - Byzantium is renamed ''Nova Roma'' during a dedication ceremony but is more popularly referred to as Constantinople Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- Birds of Venezuela by Hilty, ISBN 0-7136-6418-5
- ffrench, Richard (1991). A Guide to the Birds of Trinidad and Tobago, 2nd edition, Comstock Publishing. ISBN 0-8014-9792-2.
- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater ISBN 978-0-395-60237-9
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