Current view: Data table and detailed info
Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A. and Fishpool, L.D.C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
SACC. 2005 and updates. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm.
IUCN Red List criteria met and history
Red List criteria met
Red List history
Migratory status |
altitudinal migrant |
Forest dependency |
does not normally occur in forest |
Land-mass type |
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Average mass |
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Population justification: Poorly known, but locally common throughout its large range, especially in Peru (Schulenberg et al. 2007). Nonetheless, it is patchily distributed (eBird 2024), and Boyla and Estrada (2005) estimated the global population as 10,000-25,000 individuals. In a recent appraisal of South American shorebird populations, Lesterhuis et al. (in prep.) used published estimates, eBird data, and national census data to generate a population size estimate of c.9,000 individuals. Assuming that for all of these counts that they do not all refer to mature individuals (and instead 0.6-0.8 are mature), then the global population size is estimated as (rounded) 5,000-20,000 mature individuals.
Trend justification: Suspected to be stable in the absence of plausible threats operating in this species' largely very remote range, and the species' persistence even close to towns and villages (eBird 2024).
Country/territory distribution
Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Species factsheet: Puna Snipe Gallinago andina. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/puna-snipe-gallinago-andina on 10/01/2025.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2025) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from
https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 10/01/2025.