Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii) - HBW 3, p. 497

French: Bécassine de Strickland German: Kordillerenbekassine Spanish: Agachadiza Fueguina
Other common names: (Southern/Strickland's) Cordilleran Snipe

Taxonomy: Gallinago stricklandii G. R. Gray, 1845, Hermit Island, Cape Horn.
Formerly placed in genus Chubbia. Forms superspecies with G. jamesoni, with which often considered conspecific. Monotypic.

Distribution: SC Chile and SC Argentina S to Tierra del Fuego.