South American Painted-snipe

Nycticryphes semicollaris (Vieillot, 1816)

South American Painted-snipe, Nycticryphes semicollaris, is a shorebird of lowland freshwater wetlands in southern South America, with a patchy breeding range in Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil to southern Argentina and central Chile. It belongs to the Rostratulidae, the painted-snipes. It has a relatively long, downcurved bill and webbed feet, and is not strongly sexually dimorphic, unlike the other two species in its family. The head and neck are dark red-brown with a yellow crown stripe, the upperparts are dark grey-brown with white spots, and the underparts are white.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Rostratulidae — Painted-snipes

Breeding range

South America: patchily in Paraguay and se Brazil to sc Argentina and c Chile