Rostratula australis
In 3 days <5% in a week ~10%
The Australian painted-snipe (Rostratula australis) is a medium-sized, long-billed, distinctively patterned wader. The distinctiveness of the Australian painted-snipe was recognised by John Gould in 1838 when he described and named it Rostratula australis. However, it was subsequently lumped with the greater painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis in 1934. More recently it has been shown that the differences between these taxa warrant recognition at the species level. Compared with the greater painted-snipe, the Australian painted-snipe:
has a longer wing, shorter bill and shorter tarsus has a chocolate brown, rather than rufous, head and neck in the female has round, rather than flat and visually barred, spots on the tail (female) and upper wing-coverts (male)
The head, neck and upper breast is chocolate brown (in the male, dark grey with a buff median stripe on the crown), fading to rufous in the centre of the hindneck and merging to dark, barred grey on the back. There is a cream comma-shaped mark around the eye. A white stripe on the side of the breast and over the shoulders is diagnostic. The upperwing is grey (with buff spots in the male). The lower... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Painted-Snipe sighting in Brisbane on a given day, based on 151 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 171st most-seen of the 237 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to under 5%, and over a week to about 10%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Painted-Snipe in Brisbane on a given day, against under 5% in January to November, the lowest months. That is one of Brisbane's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain against 40 mm in July.
Only Brisbane, in our data
Brisbane is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Australian Painted-Snipe sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Charadriiformes
The closest relatives of the Australian Painted-Snipe that you can see in Brisbane (order Charadriiformes, Shorebirds and Allies) are Masked Lapwing (about 50%), Comb-crested Jacana (about 20%) and White-headed Stilt (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Australian Painted-Snipe is recorded against all the birds logged in Brisbane (151 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
