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| beautiful ladies |
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| jaw dropped Male |
In animals and birds male are
more beautiful and handsome than female but few are exception. Greater
Painted-snipe is one of that where female is more beautiful than male. They are
summer visitor to our area. The breeding season is between April and July. We saw
them much time in Gujarat during that time. It sometime coincidence or incidence
that I visit the Thol bird sanctuary every year same day and find this birds
along with few other. Here female is so beautiful so male jaw was just drop
down. These are two images but just I thought that.
The painted-snipe is not related
to the true snipes and differs from them in habits, flight and appearance,
being far more colorful and having longer legs than the snipes. It is unusual
in that the female is larger and more brightly colored than the male, with the
sides of the head, neck and throat a rich chestnut brown and a distinct black
band across the breast; the male is paler and greyer.
The females court the males, are
polyandrous with males incubating and raising the young as predicted by
parental investment theory. Immature birds resemble the male but lack the
broken dark band across the breast. Males are also known to carry the chicks to
safety under the wings.
9th May 2016
Thol Bird Sanctuary, Mehsana, Gujarat, India
Nikon D7100
AF-S Nikkor 300mm F/4D IF-ED + AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E
f/8, 1/2000,iso-500
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