Tuesday, June 17, 2014

BANDED LAPWING


108              BANDED LAPWING      Vanellus tricolor

Australia     (108)

Also known as Banded or Black-breasted Plover. 25-28 cm. Range all of Australia below tropics, a line from Cairns, Mount Isa, Alice Springs to Ashburton River in WA. Found in bare or ploughed paddocks, new crops, plains, airfields, stony ground, short grass dry swamp.

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