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Southern Lapwing. Chicks and Spurs

November 24, 2012 by Redgannet 6 Comments

Primarily, Lapwings are an Old World family with over 20 species including Australasia’s Masked Lapwing, Asia’s Yellow-wattled Lapwing and the Red-wattled Lapwing of the...

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The return of the Banded Lapwing

August 26, 2012 by Clare M 7 Comments

Last October we had a rare visitor to Broome in the form of a Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor. It spent its visit at the Golf...

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Plovers, they’re harder than you think.

July 22, 2012 by Clare K 9 Comments

I’ve written before about the two near identical plovers that breed here in Arctic Bay, The Semipalmated Plover and the Common Ringed Plover. I...

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Killdeer from Egg to Adult

July 19, 2012 by Corey 7 Comments

The Killdeer is a wide-ranging plover. It breeds across much of North America, is present year-round in the Caribbean, northern Central America, and the...

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Southern Lapwings and their Sexy Spurs

June 18, 2012 by Mike 10 Comments

If you haven’t been to Trinidad and Tobago, you’re missing out on a country that combines many of the best qualities of the Caribbean...

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Oriental Plovers

March 18, 2012 by Clare M 14 Comments

Oriental Plovers Charadrius veredus are a species of shorebird that we see in varying numbers around Broome and they may be on the beach,...

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When will the Pluvialis tundra plovers get their own family?

January 12, 2012 by David 5 Comments

The air was thick and clammy, and mosquitoes were biting along Louisiana’s Mermentau River last Thursday morning, the final day of the Audubon Christmas...

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