Southern Lapwing: It is a bird with a large plover, crested, boldly patterned in black and white; iris red, bronze wings, green with black primaries and white on wing-coverts, forehead and throat black, noisy and gregarious.
- Habitat: Trinidad, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Guianas and Tobago
- Cattle ranching caused an increase in population size during 1961-1974 rapidly
- Lives in marshy savannas
- 13 inches large
- Voice is a penetrating series of high-pitched notes, in flight and day and night often uttered
- Breeding early as March
- Nest is usually a scrape on the ground and eggs olive-brown marked with black
- Chicks precocial
- On open savannas, the typical habitat and with small groups
- Erect postures and crouching
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