The Greater Painted-snipe is a member of a very interesting family. There are only two other members. The Greater Painted-snipe lives in Africa and across the southern parts of asia, the Australian Painted-snipe lives in the Australian region and the American Painted-snipe lives in South America. That’s quite a distribution for a family without two species sharing the same habitat.
The Greater Painted-snipe is quite colorful and surprisingly the female is the more colorful because the male does most of the incubating and chick rearing duties. They inhabit shalow marshes eating seeds, invertebrates and molluscs.
Classification:
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Rostratulidae
Genus: Rostratula
Species: R. benghalensis
Photos:
Greater Painted Snipe (Male)
Greater Painted Snipe (Female)
Greater Painted-snipe male with chicks
Greater Painted-snipe
Greater Painted-snipe
India Nature Watch - Male Greater Painted Snipe- Threat Display
Atul Dhamankar: Male Greater Painted Snipe- Threat Display. Read more…
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