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| Vanellus indicus |
Scientific Name: Vanellus indicus
Common Name: Red wattled lapwing
Local Name: Teetahree
Description: Resident bird of India, a wader which is found near water, cultivation, fields or maidans. Habitat depends on nesting as lays eggs on ground with arrangement of pebbles as nest. preference for marshes
Identification: Wader with black crown, chest, fore-neck stripe and tail tip. The upper face, the rest of the neck, flanks, belly and tail are white and the wings and back are light brown. The bill and facial wattles
Size:33 cm.
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| Vanellus indicus |
Bill: black tipped red bill
Flight: The name derives from the irregular lag of its wing beats in flight. irregular flight pattern, there
Feeding: insects and other invertebrates, which are picked from the ground, mainly at night.
Nest: in a ground scrape, collection of stones/pebbles and highly camouflaged
Egg: 3-4 blotchy buff
Call: keekik-keekik-keekik
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