Greater Painted-snipe - BirdForum Opus

Breeding pair, female upright
Photo © by Alok Tewari
Basai Wetlands, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, 19 March 2014

Identification

23–28 cm (9-11 in)
Female with much brown
Male much greyer, with golden eye patch and crown stripe

Large eye, and in female the uniform brown of head and neck separates from most other snipe-like species.

Male
Photo © by John Keep
Near Kotu Stream, The Gambia, March 2005

This is a monotypic species.

It was formerly considered conspecific with Australian Painted-snipe.

Marshes and other vegetated wetlands, both permanent and seasonal.

Looks labored on the wings.

Omnivorous; their diet includes snails, insects, worms, rice and grass seeds.

Voice is often heard after dark.

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Avibase
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved August 2014)

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Greater Painted-snipe. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 10 October 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Greater_Painted-snipe

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