Jenjang dan burung perancah (Cranes & Waders)
Greater Painted-Snipe
Rostratula benghalensis
- langka
- 55 km/h
- Risiko rendah
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.
- Populasi
- roughly 33,300–153,000 mature individuals (global estimate ~50,000–230,000 individuals), trend unknown
- Habitat
- Shallow freshwater and brackish wetlands with dense fringing vegetation — marshes, swamps, reedbeds, rice paddies, pond and lake edges, riverbanks, and seasonally flooded agricultural land; up to about 1,800 m elevation
- Fakta menarik
- The Greater Painted-Snipe shows dramatic sex-role reversal: the female is larger and more brightly plumaged, initiates courtship and may mate with up to four males in a season, while the males alone incubate the eggs (about 19 days) and raise the chicks.
- Sebaran
- Sub-Saharan Africa (including Madagascar and the Seychelles) and South/Southeast Asia through to parts of Australia's range (the Australian population is now often split as a separate species, Australian Painted-Snipe); absent from true desert regions such as eastern Somalia and the Namib
- Makanan
- Omnivorous: insects (grasshoppers, crickets), snails, earthworms, small crustaceans, plus seeds of grasses, rice, and millet; forages by probing soft mud and sweeping its bill side to side through shallow water
- Ukuran
- 0,25 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,52 m
- Masa hidup
- 4 tahun
