Mike Wilkes / Two male Painted snipe in water {Rostratula benghalensis} Serengeti NP, Tanzania

Terry Andrewartha / Painted snipe {Rostratula benghalensis} attacking Jacana Masai Mara, Kenya

Richard Du Toit / Painted snipe, male {Rostratula benghalensis} Khwai river, Moremi WR, Botswana

Richard Du Toit / Two male Painted snipe {Rostratula benghalensis} Moremi WR, Botswana

Lisa Asch / Greater painted snipe {Rostratula b benghalensis} Masai Mara, Kenya

Tony Heald / Painted snipe {Rostratula benghalensis} feeding amongst water vegetation, Okavango, Moremi, Botswana, Southern-Africa

Lisa Asch / Greater painted snipe {Rostratula b benghalensis} Masai Mara Kenya

Roland Seitre / Painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) male, wading in shallow water, Djoudj National Park, Senegal.

Bernard Castelein / Greater painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) male, feeding in river, Allahein River, The Gambia.

Guy Edwardes / Greater painted-snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) male reflected in water. Savuti, Chobe National Park, Botswana.

Bernard Castelein / Greater painted snipe (Rostratula benghalensis) female, Allahein River, Gambia.