SPURWING PLOVER

Photographed at Ambury, New Zealand, June 2017

(*   17)                SPURWING PLOVER              Vanellus miles

NEW ZEALAND              9

In Australia known as Masked Lapwing. An abundant native across most of New Zealand. 38 cm. Colonised NZ from Australia in the 1930s and after a slow start spread after 1960 across most of country.

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.

YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING

March 2017

1118         YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING             Vanellus malabaricus

SRI LANKA            145  

Found in very dry habitats: stony pastures, fallow fields and open scrubland. 26-28 cm. Rather uncommon breeding resident resident in dry lowlands.

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.

RIVER LAPWING

Photographed in Chitin, Nepal, March 2017

 1039               RIVER LAPWING              Vanellus duvaucelii

NEPAL            126

Found on sandbanks and shingle banks of rivers. 29-32 cm. Locally fairly common resident in lowlands, frequently in mid-hills.

GREY-HEADED LAPWING

Photographed in Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017

GREY-HEADED LAPWING               Vanellus cinereus

NEPAL        

Found on riverbanks and in wet fields. 34-37 cm. Uncommon winter visitor and passage migrant.

CROWNED LAPWING

380          CROWNED LAPWING            Vanellus coronatus

South Africa            (73)

Also known as Crowned Plover. Range from Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. Found in short, dry grassland which may be overgrazed, avoids mountains.

SENEGAL LAPWING

379            SENEGAL LAPWING             Vanellus senegallus

South Africa        (72)

Also known as Lesser Black-winged Lapwing. 22-26 cm, wingspan 72 cm. Range ne of Southern Africa. Found in dry, open areas of savanna, favours burnt areas.          

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.

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.

MASKED LAPWING

Subspecies novaehollandiae, found across Southern Australia.

17    MASKED LAPWING     Vanellus miles

Australia   (17)

Also known as Masked or Spurwinged plover. It is 35-38 cms. Noisy and aggressive towards intruders when nesting. Found on swamp margins, airfields, open areas and paddocks. Ranges over all Australia except bottom south-west quarter of mainland.

Subspecies: miles, found across Northern Australia