banded lapwing

.... not so sensible as dad!! I managed to get a picture of one of the youngsters wandering out in the full sun. You can see he's browner and the red wattles aren't yet fully developed. At one point it was rather funny; there was a thin shadow cast by a light pole and most of the birds had...

After a couple of hours we arrived at Cunnamulla the nearest town for our base of the next 5 days. We found a garage for petrol and it was a good choice, for out to the side of the forecourt was a collection of birds, keeping to what shade there was... this is an adult Banded Lapwing, part of a...

For those who missed our posting of this species a couple of weeks ago,this is another photo of this beautiful Lapwing on a Gibber plain after heavy rains.Normally these plains are just bare red rocks!

The second species of lapwing found on Australian trip. With both forms of the Masked Lapwing this made a sweep of the lapwings found there. These bird was found in the hills outside of Sydney. These guys were wearing so much "jewelry" that you could almost think their name came from...

Taken near Wanna Sation. Part of this station is now National Park and was bought by the Department of Conservation to preserve the habitat. There are planty of birds due to the wet season and some remarkable land forms. Well worth a visit.

One for the database. This is one of a pair, youngsters by the brown plumage, which is black in adults. They were close to the northern extreme of their range, at Hamelin Bay in the far west of Western Australia. Clearly, high temperatures do not worry them: it was already 38 degrees and only...