The Pantanal snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae) is a bird in tribe Scolopancinai and subfamily Scolopacinae of family Scolopacidae, the sandpipers and relatives.

Their upperparts have a complex pattern of muted whitish, buffy, rufous, and black on a brown background.

[7] The Pantanal snipe is essentially sedentary, though some make short movements in winter to find permanent marshes.

[7] The Pantanal snipe breeds in most of South America away from the Pacific coast and eastern Brazil, and also on Trinidad and the Falkland Islands.

The male performs a winnowing display during courtship, flying high in circles and then taking shallow dives to produce a distinctive sound.

The species' non-vocal winnowing is made by air flowing over the outer tail feathers during flight.

[7] The IUCN follows HBW taxonomy and so has assessed the "South American" (Pantanal plus Magellanic) snipe as a whole.