Listen to the Noble snipe
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About the Noble snipe
The Noble snipe is a bird in the family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “near threatened”.
What does the Noble snipe sound like?
Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round. Listening for both helps with identification.
The recordings here are labelled as call when flushed. Listen for differences in rhythm, pitch and repetition – the spectrum display makes it easy to see whether a sound is a pure whistle (a thin line), a harsh call (a broad band) or a trill (rapid repeated marks).
From Wikipedia
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.
Related birds in the genus Gallinago
More from the family Scolopacidae
Eurasian woodcock
Scolopax rusticola
Common redshank
Tringa totanus
Common sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Eurasian curlew
Numenius arquata
Common greenshank
Tringa nebularia
Black-tailed godwit
Limosa limosa
Eurasian whimbrel
Numenius phaeopus
Green sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Wood sandpiper
Tringa glareola
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Frequently asked questions
What does a Noble snipe sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the Noble snipe on this page, including its call when flushed. Most birds have two kinds of vocalisation: songs, which are learned or innate phrases delivered mainly in spring and summer, and calls – brief contact, alarm and begging notes heard all year round.
Is the Noble snipe endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the Noble snipe as “near threatened”.
What family does the Noble snipe belong to?
The Noble snipe (Gallinago nobilis) belongs to the family Scolopacidae in the order Charadriiformes.
Sources & credits
- Call when flushed · Cotopaxi: Laguna de Limpiopungo, Ecuador by Niels Krabbe – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q1268218 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Noble snipe – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Alejandro Bayer Tamayo from Armenia, Colombia – CC BY-SA 2.0