Plovers

Masked Lapwing

Vanellus miles

The Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) is a 387 g grassland bird that eats mostly insects and other invertebrates. It stays put all year.

Family

Plovers

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

387 g

Habitat

Grassland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Resident

Countries recorded

5

Recorded in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, New Caledonia.

Where to see it: 52 Mill Road, Pukekohe East, NZ (New Zealand); Miranda · main hide/Limeworks (New Zealand); Pacific Adventist University (Papua New Guinea); Oxley Creek Common (Australia); Aéroport de Whitegrass (Vanuatu).

Photo: (c) Donald Hobern, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist