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Pin-tailed Snipe in Bundula, Sri Lanka
Quite a beautiful bird when seeing it up close, with its earth-like complicated patterns and colors. The pin-tailed snipe and common snipe look very much alike and can only be separated when in flight. I have based this identification on my birds book which mentions the pin-tailed is far more common in this region, so this one is an educated guess.
The pin-tailed snipe also known as the pintail snipe, is a small stocky wader. It breeds in northern Russia and migrates to spend the non-breeding season in southern Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia. It is the most common migrant snipe in southern India, Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia. It is a vagrant to north-western and northern Australia, and to East Africa Kenya.
Its breeding habitat is damp marshes and tundra in Arctic and boreal Russia. Birds in their non-breeding range use.. more
