
Photo: J.M.Garg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Vanellus duvaucelii
Diet
Invertebrates
Habitat
Wetland; rivers
Clutch size
2 eggs
Size
29–32cm
The river lapwing is 29–32 cm long, with a black crest, crown, face and central throat and greyish-white sides to the neck and nape. It has a grey-brown breast band and white underparts with a black belly patch, a brown back, a white rump and a black tail, and it resembles the closely related spur-winged lapwing of Africa. Young birds have brown tips to the black head feathers, a sandier back and pale fringes to the upperparts. The call is a sharp tip-tip or did-did-did (Wikipedia, general species account).
It lays two eggs on a ground scrape (Wikipedia, general species account).