Greater painted-snipe
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The greater painted-snipe is a species of wader in the small painted-snipe family Rostratulidae. It widely distributed across Africa and southern Asia and is found in a variety of wetland habitats, in
Greater Painted snipe male, Kruger NP
Greater painted snipe female kannur@kattampally birds 15
The female on the left is more colourful.
Egg, Muséum de Toulouse
Australian painted-snipe
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The Australian painted-snipe is a medium-sized, long-billed, distinctively patterned wader.
Greater painted-snipe
…examined a drawing that had been sent to the English silk-pattern designer Joseph Dandridge from Bengal. The greater painted-snipe is now placed with the Australian painted-snipe in the genus Rostratula that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot. The species is treated as monotypic: no subspecies are…
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