South American Painted Snipe
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.
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