This is a male of Greater painted snipe with the two typical yellow and white bands, one over the eye and ear and one in front of the wing. However, the Greater painted snipe applies "reverse sex order", which means that it is the female who courts, competes for nesting places and defends her nest and her male aggressively, while it is the male who incubates and gets to take care of the young. It possibly also explains that the female, like the Red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius), is more brightly colored than the male, with a reddish head and jet-black breast. To get this picture, both Bablu and I worked hard. He spotted a pair from a distance that were completely camouflaged in the grass, but managed to lure this male out to a section of swamp land that I jumped over to and tried to make myself as invisible as possible…