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Rostratula australis (Australian Painted Snipe)

Synonyms: Rhynchaea australis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Australian painted-snipe (Rostratula australis) is a medium-sized, long-billed, distinctively patterned wader.
View Wikipedia Record: Rostratula australis

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Rostratula australis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
72
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 26.9016
EDGE Score: 5.40813
View EDGE Record: Rostratula australis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  136 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  50 %
Female Maturity [1]  0 years 12 months
Clutch Size [4]  3
Clutches / Year [1]  3
Incubation [3]  15 days
Wing Span [3]  20 inches (.52 m)

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Rostratula australis. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 09/09/2012.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0