Black-fronted Dotterel
Posterior
Murray Mallee Region
Banded Lapwing
In a zoo
 
                 
Black-shouldered Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles ssp novaehollandiae)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)
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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.

Copyright © 2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 11-Oct-2025
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)