Showing posts with label Red-wattled Lapwing. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

RED-WATTLED LAPWING

Photographed on Langkawi, April 2017
(*   336)            RED-WATTLED LAPWING                Vanellus indicus

MALAYSIA              11

Found on the margins of lakes and large rivers, marshes, agriculture, wasteland: up to 1,525 m. 31.5-35 cm. Uncommon to common resident throughout SE Asia.


Thursday, April 13, 2017

RED-WATTLED LAPWING

Subspecies lankae, photographed March 2017
(*   336)               RED-WATTLED LAPWING                   Vanellus indicus

SRI LANKA                 19

Found in open flat ground near water. 32-35 cm. Common breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka but rare in the hills.



Tuesday, November 11, 2014

RED-WATTLED LAPWING

Photographed in Chitwan, Nepal
336         RED-WATTLED LAPWING           Vanellus indicus

Nepal     (13)

35 cm. In Hindi known as tittibha. While it ranges from Iraq, sw Iran, eastward across South Asia, India, Kashmir and Nepal, these are made up of several sub-species. In Nepal it is the sub-species atronuchalis. Found in wetland habitats.