I also followed up Steve Read’s sighting (thanks Steve) of an Australian Painted-snipe. It (a male) was resting under the dock plant between the two ‘fallen logs’ out from Ardea Hide. It was there from at least
11:20 to 12:15 h on Sunday 1 December. At first it was standing, then sat down and stayed in that position and location until I left. Very well camouflaged.
I’ve prepared a rarities report for the COG panel with some poor photos that definitively identify it as a male based on colour of eye surround, colour of neck and side of breast, and to a lesser extent, patterning
of the wings which were mainly in dappled light.
Cheers,
Harvey Perkins
From: Steve Read [
Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2013 7:39 AM
To: 'Canberra birds'
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Painted Snipe
Steve W has given a good description of the exact location where the Painted-snipe was last Saturday.
Eremaea list 208709 notes the bird as a female. The bird I saw on three separate occasions last Saturday rarely left cover, and on the one occasion it did the light was poor, so I could not tell if it was a
male or female.
Steve R
From: Wallaces
Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2013 7:20 AM
To: Canberra birds
Subject: [canberrabirds] Painted Snipe
Yesterday a male made a brief appearance in front of Ardea hide. It was between the two big logs in the area to the right, under the Dock plant.
Steve
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