South American Painted Snipe

South American Painted Snipe
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Rostratulidae
Genus:	Nycticryphes Wetmore & Peters, 1923
Species:	N. semicollaris
Binomial name
Nycticryphes semicollaris (Vieillot, 1816)
Synonyms
Rostratula semicollaris

The South American Painted Snipe or Lesser Painted Snipe, Nycticryphes semicollaris, is a shorebird in the family Rostratulidae. There are two other species in its family, the Australian Painted Snipe and the Greater Painted Snipe.

Description

Head and neck dark red-brown with a yellow stripe on the crown; upperparts dark grey-brown, spotted white; underparts white. Although the female may be slightly larger and brighter, in contrast to the two other species in the family, the Lesser Painted Snipe is not strongly sexually dimorphic. It has a relatively long, decurved, bill. It has webbed feet, also a difference from the other painted snipe. Measurements: 19–23 cm in length; 65–86 g in weight.

Distribution and habitat

The species is found in the southern third of South America, from southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to Chile and Argentina. It inhabits lowland freshwater wetlands, including wet grasslands.

Behaviour

Diet

Omnivorous, feeding by probing in mud and shallow water for small animals and seeds, often at dusk.

Breeding

Lesser Painted Snipes are monogamous and breed semi-colonially. The nest is a shallow cup on the ground in a wetland, with a clutch of 2-3 eggs. Breeding has been recorded mainly from July to February.

Voice

A hoarse, hissing "wee-oo" recorded from birds in captivity.

Conservation

The Lesser Painted Snipe has traditionally been regarded as a desirable game-bird in Chile and Argentina and has been regularly hunted. It is an uncommon species in its wide range, and may be threatened by drainage of wetlands and other habitat degradation. However, there has been no documented significant decline in population and the species' conservation status remains at one of Least Concern.

References

• BirdLife Species Factsheet
• Höhn, E. Otto. (1975). Notes on Black-headed Ducks, Painted Snipe and Spotted Tinamous. Auk 92: 566-575.

External links

• Answers.com - South American Painted Snipe
• Image at ADW

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