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Masked Lapwing

Vanellus miles

Photo by veneta.tashev
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Field Notes

Description:

Medium sized bird

Habitat:

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Reference Links:

Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles), Masked Lapwing

Species ID Suggestions

Spur–winged plover

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Nyssaflutterby
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Comments (3)
bee.jacbs
Hi Veneta, Nice spotting! I'm starting a birds of New Zealand mission to document biodiversity within New Zealand. (http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/12520214) It would be wonderful if you would add your bird spottings to this mission and keep up the great posts. Cheers!
Nyssaflutterby
That would be the one :) I was just trying to see what come up with information for New Zealand. We call them Masked Lapwings, Plovers or 'argh run there's a crazy bird attacking me'. I have had a few run ins with these birds during breeding season.
veneta.tashev
May be it is closer to a masked plover: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masked_Lapwing Sorry the quality of the picture is so low, it was pretty far.

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PublishedMarch 14, 2012

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