Red-wattled lapwing
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The red-wattled lapwing is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud ala
Red wattled lapwing Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar
V. i. indicus showing the diagnostic white wing bar and a broad black band on the white tail
V. i. aigneri Turkey
V. i. atronuchalis showing the white ear patch bounded by black, Thailand
Vanellus
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Vanellus is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all lapwings except red-kneed dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus. The name "vanellus" is Latin for "little fan", vanellus being the diminutive
Red-wattled lapwing
…locality is Goa in western India. It was subsequently placed in various other genera such as Sarcogrammus and Lobivanellus before being merged into Vanellus which was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. Vanellus is the Medieval Latin for a "lapwing". It is a diminutive of the…
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
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Spur-winged lapwing
Black-headed lapwing