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| Photographed at Lakes Road, Lake George, near Bungendong, NSW, February 2017 |
968 AUSTRALIAN PAINTED SNIPE Rostratula benghalensis
AUSTRALIA 700
Found in well-vegetated shallows and margins of wetlands, dams, sewerage ponds; wet pastures, marshy areas, irrigation systems, lignum, tee-tree scrub, open timber. 22-30 cm, female bigger. Range mostly se Aust., s of Brisbane-Adelaide; scarce, erratic over much of inland., n. Q, Nt, and coastal WA; vagrant Tas., Rare. Dispersive or irruptive in response to rainfall, possibly part migratory, moving n into Q. in summer.
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| The female is the more brightly coloured one on the left. |
