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| Species Details [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
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Australian Painted Snipe* |
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Rostratula australis |
Endemic |
Description (10)
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Australian Painted Snipe
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Medium. Long, slightly decurved bill. Sexes differ. Female larger.
Male: Crown, brown spotted with white with broad cinnamon buff mesial stripe. Eyering, buff, Line behind eye, buff. Eye, dark brown. Neck, upper back, grey finely vermiculated with black. Remaining upperparts, including tail and flight feathers, greyish-brown or grey, some parts glossed with bronze, barred with white and buff. Scapulars have cinnamon buff outer edges forming a large V down back, which seems to originate from white bar extending to shoulder from breast, and both together suggest a harness. Wing coverts, bronzy brown barred black and mottled with numerous bars and oval spots of cinnamon buff. Sides of face, chin, buff white, freckled with black. Lower throat, upper breast, olive brown, finely barred with white and brown. Breast, belly, undertail and median and greater underwing coverts, white. Bill, brownish-pink, darker at base. Legs, greyish-olive.
Female: Crown, bronzy brown with cinnamon buff mesial stripe and enclosing a conspicuous white eryering and line behind eye. Lores, entire neck, upper breast, dark chestnut, paler on throat. Chin, whitish. Broad collar surrounding body from back to breast, blackish-brown followed by a broad white bar from shoulder to lower breast, forming a harness. Rest of upperparts, bronzy olive green, barred and vermiculated with black, especially on wings, and mottled with large oval spots on tertails and primaries. A few long white feathers on upper back and has a cinnamon buff V down back, continuing the white bar from breast extending to shoulder. Lower breast, belly, undertail and median and greater underwing coverts, white. Bill, brownish-pink, darker at base. Legs, greyish-olive.
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Other Names (World)
Australian Painted-snipe, Greater Painted Snipe (benghalensis), Painted Snipe
Family
Rostratulidae (Painted-snipes)
Size
22 - 30 cm
First Described (Guide)
(Gould, 1838)
Derivation
Ros-trä'-tu-la - L., rostratulus, diminutive of rostratus, beaked: australis - L., southern (Australia)
Abundance (Guide)
MC
Uncommon, breeding resident in inland Australia.
Habitat
Margins of swamps and streams, generally with abundant low vegetation.
Australia (B).
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Australia generally, although records from Western Australia sparse.
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Rarity Status
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Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 2,499 (2010) and decreasing.
Status EN
Vulnerable.
See also EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Habits
Usually in pairs.
Food
Aquatic animals and plants.
Voice
Female, a long series of 'kot, kot, kot...' and soft, resonating 'whooo' sounds in advertisement during the breeding season, particularly at dusk. May give a loud 'kek' when flushed.
Breeding Season (Guide)
August - December in south, May - October in Queensland, probably any time after heavy rains.
Nest
A shallow depression in the ground, lined with grass and leaves, frequently sheltered under a low shrub or tuft of grass.
Eggs (Guide)
Usually 4; quite glossy, light buff, heavily splotched with dark olive, slate-grey and brown; pyriform; about 36 x 25 mm. Incubation: 19 - 20 days; by male.
Young
Precocial, nidifugous.
Subspecies
Rostratula benghalensis (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) was split into Greater Painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) and Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis) following Christidis and Boles (2008).
No subspecies.
Similar Species
Latham's Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii)
Larger. Bill is longer and straighter. Flies very fast with tilting zigzags, dropping quickly to the ground.
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)
Similar size. Bill is longer and straighter.
Pin-tailed Snipe (Gallinago stenura)
Similar size. Bill is longer and straighter.
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References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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