#CrestedWaders

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2024-07-19
📷: Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) by Beto_MdP via Pixabay 2024

The photo shows an adult, medium-sized wading bird with a striking appearance. It has a grey head with a black forehead and crest, a green-black breast band, and a white belly. Its back is brownish-grey with a bronze sheen on the shoulders. In flight, it shows a broad white wing bar and a black tail. This lapwing is also distinguished by its pink eye-ring, legs and bill, and by the red bony spurs (not pictured) hidden under its wings.

Conservation status: Least Concern 

Distribution: Widespread throughout South America, excepting densely forested, arid, or high-altitude regions. Recently spreading through Central America. 

Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Vanellus
Species: V. chilensis

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