Gallinago andina
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The puna snipe (Gallinago andina) is a bird in tribe Scolopancinai and subfamily Scolopacinae of family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers and relatives. It is native to the puna grassland. The taxonomic history of the New World snipes of genus Gallinago is complicated. What is now the puna snipe has in the past been treated as a subspecies of common snipe (G. gallinago) with what are now the Pantanal snipe (G. paraguaiae) and the Magellanic snipe (G. magellanica). After the puna snipe was recognized as a species, the Pantanal and Magellanic snipes were sometimes treated as subspecies of it. By about the year 2000 all three were beginning to be recognized as individual species by most taxonomic systems.
The puna snipe is 22.5 to 25 cm (8.9 to 9.8 in) long and weighs 65 to 105 g (2.3 to 3.7 oz). The sexes are alike. Their upperparts have a complex pattern of muted whitish, buffy, rufous, black, and brown. White trailing edges to their wings show when in flight. Their breast and flanks are buff with black markings... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lauca National Park | 🇨🇱 Chile |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Puna Snipe sighting in Lauca National Park on a given day, based on 45 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 83rd most-seen of the 112 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, September and November–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Puna Snipe in Lauca National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, April–August and October, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Puna Snipe sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lauca National Park, in our data
Lauca National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Puna Snipe sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scolopacidae
The closest relatives of the Puna Snipe that you can see in Lauca National Park (family Scolopacidae, Sandpipers and Allies) are Baird's Sandpiper (about 40%), Greater Yellowlegs (about 20%) and Wilson's Phalarope (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Puna Snipe is recorded against all the birds logged in Lauca National Park (45 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
