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Rostratula benghalensis benghalensis |
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Rostratula benghalensis benghalensis |
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Rhynchée peinte, bécassine peinte |
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Painted Snipe |
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| Kimpombolo (Kiluba-PNU) ; ndilindio (Kibemba) | |
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The female has a chestnut head and chest with a white eye-patch and upperparts patterned greenish-bronzy-grey with some cream streaks. Underparts are white. The male is greyer, has less contrasting patterns, but has large cream spots on the wings. Has a shorter bill than true snipes.
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Common in Katanga. Frequents flooded plains where it builds a nest at the end of teh rainy season in a tuft of grass overhanging the surrounding water by a few cms. |
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Not really shy, the male takes off to land a bit further. In flight, legs hang under the body. |
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Mollusks, insects, worms, plant matter. |
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It is the male that sits on and raises the young. To keep intruders away from the nest, the male does not hesitate to draw the attention to him and to walk away dragging a wing as if it was broken. |
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Warning :
This database was established according to official pieces of work and with the help of famous scientists. However, there might be some errors.
The vernacular names were collected in the field and in the colonial literature from the first part of the 20th century. The monks who established the first dictionaries were not necessarily informed naturalists. Therefore, errors must have been committed.
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