Yellow-wattled lapwing
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The yellow-wattled lapwing is a lapwing that is endemic to the Indian subcontinent. It is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight. Althoug
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Yellow-wattled Lapwing in flight
Sitting on the nest
Egg clutch
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
Yellow-wattled lapwing
…name Charadrius malabaricus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The type locality is the Malabar Coast in southwest India. The current genus Vanellus was erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. Vanellus is Medieval Latin for a "lapwing". It is a diminutive of the Latin vanus…
Vanellus miles novaehollandiae
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