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Justification of Red List category
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (extent of occurrence <20,000 km² combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). The population trend appears to be stable, and hence the species does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size is estimated to me moderately small (5,000-20,000 mature individuals), but because the species is suspected to be stable, it is does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

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).

Text account compilers
Ekstrom, J., Berryman, A., Butchart, S.

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2025) Species factsheet: Puna Snipe Gallinago andina. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/puna-snipe-gallinago-andina on 13/01/2025.
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 13/01/2025.