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Watchful gaze. Standing ground on the open lawn.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.

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A Masked Lapwing, a wading bird with a black cap, white chest, grey wings, and striking yellow facial wattles, stands in a low cut, patchy green and brown grassy field, looking directly forward. The sun casts a small shadow to its left.

Guardian of the grassland. A Masked Lapwing (Plover) perfectly framed by the golden afternoon sun.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

© 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓡𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓚𝓮𝓿 𝓟𝓮𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓮.

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A Masked Lapwing, a bird with a black cap, white chest, and grey back, stands in sun drenched, tall, dry brown and golden grass. The bird is walking to the left, slightly backlit, making its silhouette stand out against the shimmering field.

Watchful gaze. Standing ground on the open lawn.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Photo and edit by Kev.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

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Guardian of the grassland. A Masked Lapwing (Plover) perfectly framed by the golden afternoon sun.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Photo and edit by Kev.

(𝒟ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫ℯℯ𝓅𝓈, 𝒹ℴ𝓊𝒷𝓁ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝓅ℯ𝓇𝓈𝓅ℯ𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓋ℯ!)

#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #tasmania #MaskedLapwing #Plover #AustralianBirds #BirdPhotography #WildlifePhotography #NatureLovers

Look at these fluff-balls!

Masked Lapwing chicks in the coolish morning (13ºC).

#bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #MaskedLapwing #chick

A very fluffy small bird with white chest and belly, brown mottled wings and head, yellowing beak and the beginnings of the yellow face-mask that they get their name from. It is standing on a lawn.

Today's birds on campus are decidedly spring-themed.

We have a trio of Pied Currawong fledglings.
A parent Masked Lapwing dutifully sitting on eggs.
A Grey Butcherbird fledgling excitedly calling for food as its parent turns up to feed it.
And not following the theme, a Buff-banded Rail on the edge of the lake.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #PiedCurrawong #GreyButcherbird #MaskedLapwing #BuffBandedRail #bird

Three fluffy dark grey Pied Currawong Fledglings sit in a tree. Two are calling, and the third (in the middle) looking on.

With just its head poking up from a patch of un-mown grass, this Masked Lapwing is sitting on eggs, due to hatch "any day now".
The birds head has a black cap, yellow mask, beak and wattles and white neck.

A very excited Grey Butcherbird fledgling on a branch calls to its parent on another branch. The parent is holding some food in its beak.

The beautifully patterned Buff-banded Rail, standing amongst the long grasses next to the lake. Its reflection can be seen below it, slightly blurred by movement on the water's surface.

Campus birds from the past couple of days.

Of the two Masked Lapwing chicks I found a couple of weeks back, it seems only one remains, but it's healthy looking and foraging for itself.

I also came across a couple of disapproving Bush Stone-Curlews, and this morning, a Pacific Black Duck, perched on a rock in the lake, absorbing the morning sun.

#bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #MaskedLapwing #BushStoneCurlew #PacificBlackDuck

A Masked Lapwing chick, bending over to grab a bug in the grass. It is a few weeks old, but still very fluffy. The late afternoon sun lights up its side with a golden light.

A Masked Lapwing chick, striding over the recently mowed lawn. It stands somewhat like a Star Wars AT-ST Walker.

A pair of Bush Stone-Curlews standing in the shade. The foreground one stairs at the camera, while the background one, turned to the left (but to the right of the foreground bird), appears disinterested, or disapproving.

A Pacific Black Duck (which is mostly brown really, just with a black cap) standing on a rock in the lake, that is reflecting a brilliant blue of the morning sky.

One of the two tiny (less than a week old) Masked Lapwing chicks at work. This one found some tasty breakfast.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #MaskedLapwing #chick

A tiny mottled chick on relatively long legs, holding a worm.

A white fluffy chick with mottled head and wings on relatively long legs, striding over some dirt. Grass grows in the foreground up to its knees.

🌏 Masked lapwing (Vanellus miles) #Australasianbirds | #MaskedLapwing #Lapwings #GenusVanellus #FamilyCharadriidae | #birds🦜 #birdsoftheworld

Masked lapwing (Vanellus miles). Adult. Distribution: Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea. Conservation status: Least Concern. CC: LYAZ 📷: Photo by LN_Photoart via Pixabay 2021

The photo shows a large, ground-dwelling bird with a distinctive black crown, white chest and belly, and brown back and wings. A key feature is a large yellow wattle on the face and a sharp yellow spur on each wing.

Some #UQ #birds from the last week or so.

We have a round borb ( #MaskedLapwing ), a #WhiteFacedHeron , a snoozing #BushStoneCurlew and an #AustralianMagpie

#wildOz #AustralianWildlife #bird

A Masked Lapwing in the early morning, puffed up against the cold. It appears quite round.

It has a white body, brown wings, yellow mask on its face to match its yellow beak and black cap and shawl, as befitting a bird of obvious style.

A White-faced Heron, so named, because it has a white face but is otherwise a grey in colour, except its legs which are yellow.

A Bush Stone-curlew, basking in the afternoon sun on a cool winter day. Its eye is mostly shut, mostly...

An Australian Magpie, the northern variant common in Northern NSW and Queensland. It can be differentiated from its southern cousin by its black back, with only the back of its neck being white.

Australasian Swamphen feeding time this afternoon by the lake, and a slightly damp Masked Lapwing this morning.

#bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #AustralasianSwamphen #MaskedLapwing

A parent Australasian Swamphen feeds its chick some grass it has pulled up with its strong beak.
In the background is the lake surface, covered with duckweed and reeds.

A Masked Lapwing, standing in a small hollow such that its legs are obscured below the grass level. Only the bird is in focus, everything else is blurred.
The bird has brown wings, white body, black cape and scarf, and a prominent yellow facemark and daubs.
It also has tiny droplets of water on its head from the light drizzle.

I stalked the Masked Lapwing chicks this morning, since the light was nice, and they were happily foraging on the lawn.

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #MaskedLapwing

A fluffy brown and white chick, backlit by the morning sun, walking right to left across the frame on some well mown lawn.

A small mottled brown and white chick with relatively long legs, walking towards the camera. The sun shine from behind and to the left, highlighting its fluffy nature and providing additional depth to the photo.

Our resident Swamp Wallaby was in the front yard this morning :)

Then at work, I saw a Bush Stone-Curlew sunning itself, and a couple of baby Masked Lapwings (probably a day or two old).

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SwampWallaby #macropod #BushStoneCurlew #MaskedLapwing

A tiny Masked Lapwing chick, already busy foraging. It has a white fluffy underside, and tan and black mottled top (to blend with leaf litter on the ground). It is pictured here on a lawn.

A wide-eyed Bush Stone-Curlew, sitting in a patch of sun between dark shadows.

A tiny Masked Lapwing chick, with its mother in the background. It has a white fluffy underside, and tan and black mottled top (to blend with leaf litter on the ground).

A Swamp Wallaby (probably a female), munching on grass and weeds.
She is partially upright, ears pricked and looking mostly towards the camera.

Masked lapwing, Vanellus miles.

#nature #birds #lapwing #maskedlapwing #birdsofthefediverse

Masked lapwing, Vanellus miles, standing on one leg.

You can see why these birds used to be called Spur-winged Plovers. They're actually Masked Lapwings (not plovers at all, although people still call them that colloquially)

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A masked lapwing in flight, wings on the downbeat. On the apex of each wing, in the leading edge is a prominent spur. Nasty if you get swooped by one and they make contact.

A masked lapwing in flight, blue sky behind, wings on the upbeat.

More birds encountered today. All were wild, even though I saw three of them at the Bonorong Sanctuary (they had just flown in, presumably because it was a safe place, and there was food).

Forest Raven, Eastern Rosella, Masked Lapwing and earlier this morning at Mt Field, a Little Black Cormorant (one of four or five fishing in a small dam).

#bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #ForestRaven #EasternRosella #MaskedLapwing #LittleBlackCormorant #tassie2023

A Forest Raven, perched near a hollow in a tree branch, where there were Corella chicks.

The very colourful Eastern Rosella in a tree, lit by sunlight.

It has a red head and neck with white cheeks, yellow chest, green rump, green and blue tail. Its wing feathers are yellow rimmed with black centres, except the leading edge which is blue, and the tips with are charcoal.

A pretty standard Masked Lapwing, identical to those in Brisbane. Grey upper, white lower, pink legs, black top of head and neck, black patch at the root of the wings, yellow face mask and bill.

A shiny Little Black Cormorant on a semi-submerged log, next to some brilliant green reeds. The bird is a shiny black, with green eyes, and the beak is slightly hooked at the tip for catching fish.

A masked lapwing at the Lincoln Park Zoo's McCormick Bird House's free flight room.

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A masked lapwing in Lincoln Park Zoo's McCormick Bird House's free flight room

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A couple of fairly common birds from my walk in to work this morning.

An Australian Magpie, and a Masked Lapwing.

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A Masked Lapwing in the morning sunlight next to a small bush and a tree. The bird has a bright yellow leathery mask between the eyes and draping down on each side of the also yellow beak. It has a black cap, and white neck/chin, then a black ring below that, and a white belly with brown wings and tall pink legs.

Masked Lapwing - Vanellus miles

The Masked Lapwing is sometimes referred to as the Spur-winged Plover because each of its wings is armed with a yellow spur at the ‘elbow’ (or carpal joint) — Indigenous people used to say that the birds were carrying yellow spears. Lapwings use these spurs when diving at potential predators or intruders during breeding season, while chicks are running around or when the eggs are just about to hatch. While these attacks are quite unnerving, the birds seldom actually strike their ‘victims’, preferring a close approach to scare them away.

Masked Lapwings are ground-dwelling birds that are closely related to the waders. The Masked Lapwing is mainly white below, with brown wings and back and a black crown. Birds have large yellow wattles covering the face, and are equipped with a thorny spur that projects from the wrist on each wing. The spur is yellow with a black tip. The Masked Lapwing has two subspecies resident in Australia. The southern subspecies has black on the hind neck and sides of breast, and has smaller facial wattles. Northern birds are smaller, without the partial black collar, but have a much larger wattle, which covers most of the side of the face. The sexes are similar in both subspecies, although the male tends to have a larger spur. Young Masked Lapwings are similar to the adult birds, but may have a darker back. The wing spur and facial wattles are either absent or smaller in size. (Text Source: Birdlife Australia)

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