Credit & Copyright: Dr. Bruce G. Marcot
Explanation: Here is a denizen of wetlands and grasslands of South America, the Gray-breasted Seed-snipe.
We found this individual in a roadside wetland filled by a running spring, here in Rainbow Valley of the Atacama Desert of northern Chile.
This is a female, notable by the speckled breast and head
which is plainer gray in the male.
Also, this species differentiates from the very similar Least Seed-snipe
by having a dark band separating the chest from the white belly.
Note also the white chin patch edged in black,
lacking in the similar Least Seed-snipe.
Gray-breasted Seed-snipes are widely distributed and
are in no danger of being vulnerable.
