Plovers
Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus
The red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to the colloquial name of did-he-do-it bird.
- Family
- Plovers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 181 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Resident
- Countries recorded
- 22
Photo: Rison Thumboor from Thrissur, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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