LAPWINGS

1. NORTHERN LAPWING

vanellus vaanellus 28-31 cm

This is winter visitor type of bird which visits to N subcontinent. It has black crest, white (or buff) and black face pattern, black breast-band, and dark green upperparts. It Has very broad, rounded wings-tips. Shows whitish rump and blackish tail band in flight. Wet grass land, marshes, fallow fields and wetland edges.

2. YELLOW-WATTLED LAPWING

vanellus malarbaricus 26-28 cm

This type of bird is found mainly in India. It has yellow wattles and legs. In it's body we can find white supercilium, dark cap, and brown breast-band. It is found in open dry ground.

3. RIVER LAPWING

Vanellus duvaucelii 29-32 cm

It is found in N subcontinent and also in Pakistan. It has black cap and throat, grey sides to neck and black bill and legs. Black patch on belly. Mainly sandbanks and shigle banks of rivers, also estuaries.

4. GREY-HEADED LAPWING

Vanellus cinereus 34-37 cm

This type of bird is winter visitor where it visit in the places like; Nepal, mainly NE India, and Bangladesh. It has yellow bill with black tip and yellow legs. Grey head, neck and breast, latter with diffuse black border, and black tail-band. Secondaries are white. It is mainly found in the side of River banks, marshes and wet fields.

5.RED WATTLED LAPWING

Vanellus indicus 35-35 cm

This type of bird is mainly found in many countries. It has black cap and breast, red bill with black tip and yellow legs. V.i. atronuchalis, of E India, has black head, neck and breast, with white patch on ear-coverts. Mostly found in open flat ground near water.

6.SOCIABLE LAPWING

Vanellus gregarius 27-30 cm

This type of bird is found mainly mainly in Pakistan and Nepal and NW India. It has Dark cap, with white supercilia which join at nape. Adult breeding has yellow wash to sides of head, and black and maroon patch on belly. Non-breeding and immature have duller head pattern, white belly and streaked breast. It is found in dry fallow fields and scrub desert.

7. WHITE-TAILED LAPWING

Vanellus leucurus 26-29 cm

Breeds in Baluchistan; winters in N subcontinent. Blackish bill, and very long yellow legs. Plain head. Tail all white, lacking black band of other vanellus plovers. Freshwater marshy lake edges.