Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing
Adult, In Flight
Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing
Adult, Landing, Above Wing
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| Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing Adult, In Flight | | Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing Adult, Landing, Above Wing | | ||
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 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | ||||||||||||
| Order: | Coastal Birds (Charadriiformes) | |||||||||||||
| Family: | Plover (Charadriidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||
| Species: | Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles ssp novaehollandiae)| This Photo: | 🔍Adult, Landing, Underwing🔎 | Thank you (Jitensha2021) for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere These are from the Southern part of Australia. The other sub-species (ssp miles), without the Black-shoulder, is from the North. Like Red-wattle birds, the Wattles (yellow cheek skin flap) grows with age. So a small wattle indicates a young bird, and a large wattle indicates an old bird.
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