LC
Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata



References

Bird, J.P., Martin, R., Akçakaya, H.R., Gilroy, J., Burfield, I.J., Garnett, S.G., Symes, A., Taylor, J., Şekercioğlu, Ç.H. and Butchart, S.H.M. 2020. Generation lengths of the world’s birds and their implications for extinction risk. Conservation Biology 34(5): 1252-1261. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13486.

del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. and Sargatal, J. (eds). 1996. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 3: Hoatzin to Auks. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain.

eBird. 2024. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. Ithaca, New York. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: http://www.ebird.org.

Hayman, P., Marchant, J. and Prater, A.J. 1986. Shorebirds. Croom Helm, London.

IUCN. 2024. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2024-2. Available at: https://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 22 October 2024).

Lesterhuis, A,J., Clay, R.P., Sharpe, C., Faria, F., Blanco, D.E., Cifuentes-Sarmiento, Y., Ruiz-Guerra, C., Tejeda, I., Angulo, F. and Andres, B. In prep. Population estimates of shorebirds in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2022.

McMullan, M., Donegan, T.M. and Quevedo, A. 2010. Field guide to the birds of Colombia. Fundación ProAves, Bogotá, Colombia.

Ridgely, R.S. 2002. Unpublished data.

Van Gils, J., P. Wiersma, and G. M. Kirwan. 2020. Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata), version 1.0. In Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.giasni1.01.

Further resources

IUCN SSC Woodcock and Snipe Specialist Group

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Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Giant Snipe Gallinago undulata. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/giant-snipe-gallinago-undulata on 18/12/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 18/12/2024.