Noble Snipe
Photo: Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia · CC BY-SA 2.0

Sandpipers and Allies

Noble Snipe

Gallinago nobilis

NTNear Threatened
Family
Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
Order
Charadriiformes

Overview

The noble snipe (Gallinago nobilis) is a small stocky wader. It breeds in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela above or just below the treeline. It is entirely sedentary.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

Montane wet grassland far western Venezuela to far northern Peru.

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.