A bird with a black head and upper breast, a red-bill with a black tip. It has red skin in front of the eyes, and a white patch on the ears. The upperparts are a sandy greyish-brown while the underparts are white. It has long yellow legs. In this shot, it is standing in profile, looking to the right.
The same bird shot from the same angle. Here, the bird's head has turned slightly towards the camera.
In this shot, the bird has now turned its head to face the camera directly.
In this shot, the bird has now turned its head to face away from the camera, showing the blank band on the back of the neck.
Two Red-wattled Lapwings (Vanellus indicus) spotted in Taiping, Perak, Malaysia on 3 April 2026. They kept calling, while keeping a suspicious eye on us from nearby.
On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].
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