It was this chick's parents who asserted their sovereignty over the territory against the painted snipe. This snipe was bullied by the chick's parents for at least 3 hours finally it couldn't stand anymore and pretended to fight with them. At the same time, another male painted snipe flew from 50 meters away showed his support to his neighbour. This was really amazing. We were able to see two male painted snipe joined together to scare the black-winged stilt. Having seen the actions by the snipe, the black-winged stilt retreated and disappeared.
However, this chick was found dead on saturday for unknown reason.
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