Gallinago jamesoni
Silhouette: Jamie Whitehouse · PhyloPic
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Jameson's snipe (Gallinago jamesoni or Chubbia jamesoni) or the Andean snipe, is a small, stocky wader. It breeds in the Andes in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. It appears to be entirely sedentary, with no evidence of migration.
It is sometimes considered conspecific with the Fuegian snipe, Gallinago stricklandii, which is also known as the Cordilleran snipe. The scientific name of the Jameson's snipe commemorates the Scottish botanist William Jameson.
This 30–32 cm long snipe has a stocky body and relatively short legs for a wader. Its upperparts, head and neck are streaked and patterned with warm brown and buff, and the gold edges to the feathers form lines down its back, which are not as sharply defined as in most snipe species. The belly is white with brown barring. The horn-colored bill is long, straight and fairly robust. The legs and feet are yellowish-green. The sexes are similar, and immatures differ only in showing pale fringes on the wing coverts.
The Jameson's snipe makes a whee-tschwu call in its display flight. Compared with other snipes with an overlapping range, Jameson's Snipe is obviously larger, with a heavy woodcock-like flight... Wikipedia →
Call1:01
Ecuador · 1995
© Niels Krabbe · XC238309 · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Alarm call1:03
Ecuador · 2008
© Leonardo Ordóñez-Delgado · XC94275 · CC BY-NC-ND 2.5
Recording0:45
Bolivia · 2024
© Omar Miranda B. · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Nevados National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Andean Snipe sighting in Los Nevados National Natural Park on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 376th most-seen of the 424 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Andean Snipe in Los Nevados National Natural Park on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Andean Snipe sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Los Nevados National Natural Park, in our data
Los Nevados National Natural Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Andean Snipe sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Andean Snipe is recorded against all the birds logged in Los Nevados National Natural Park (18 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.
