Red-Wattled Lapwing
The birds usually keep in pairs or trios in well-watered open country, ploughed fields, grazing land, and margins and dry beds of tanks and puddles. They occasionally form large flocks, ranging from 26 to 200 birds. They are also found in forest clearings around rain-filled depressions. They run about in short spurts and dip forward obliquely (with unflexed legs) to pick up food in a typical plover manner. They are said to feed at night being especially active around the full moon. Uncannily and ceaselessly vigilant, day or night, and are the first to detect intrusions and raise an alarm, and therefore considered a nuisance by hunters.
Red-Wattled Lapwing
The birds usually keep in pairs or trios in well-watered open country, ploughed fields, grazing land, and margins and dry beds of tanks and puddles. They occasionally form large flocks, ranging from 26 to 200 birds. They are also found in forest clearings around rain-filled depressions. They run about in short spurts and dip forward obliquely (with unflexed legs) to pick up food in a typical plover manner. They are said to feed at night being especially active around the full moon. Uncannily and ceaselessly vigilant, day or night, and are the first to detect intrusions and raise an alarm, and therefore considered a nuisance by hunters.