Profile
In flight
Cranes & Waders
Greater Painted-Snipe
Rostratula benghalensis
- rare
- 55 km/h
- Least Concern
A sex-role-reversed wader where the female is the painted showpiece - she courts, he broods. A jewel of the rice fields when she finally steps into the open.
- Population
- locally distributed across Africa and Asia, under-detected due to skulking habits
- Habitat
- shallow marshes, flooded paddy, vegetated wetland edges
- Diet
- insects, worms, snails, crustaceans, seeds
- Size
- 0.25 m
- Wingspan
- 0.5 m
