[BirdPhotoIndia] Re: Greater Painted Snipe - First Year Female | Kolkata

Here is another image of the same individual.
Greater Painted Snipe - first year female. 15th June, 2011, Kolkata, India.
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Cheers,
Arka S

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Arka Sarkar <sarkar.arka@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I had not encountered this plumage variation of female Greater Painted Snipes earlier. Rasmussen's Birds of South Asia explains that in first year females the head and breast pattern is like a darker and bolder variation of the adult male, while the patterns on the back are similar to adult females.
> 15th June, 2011, Kolkata, India.
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> Cheers,
> Arka S

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