Recent Sighting Details
Date Added: May 18, 2008
Posted by: Arpit Deomurari
Location: Sociable Plover (Vanellus gregarius) seen at Little Rann of Kutch near Vanod Village
Sightings: Recently, 22-11-2007, A rare Lapwing known as Sociable Lapwing or Sociable Plover (Vanellus gregarius) seen at Little Rann of Kutch near Vanod Village. A flock of 45 birds were seen roosting at a site where the author(Arpit Deomurari) has reported 27 same birds last year also. This flock is considered as the largest flock of sociable lapwing found in india till date.
This Lapwing is also listed in the Red Data Book as a Critically Endangered Bird Species. They breed on open grassland in Russia and Kazakhstan. Three to five eggs are laid in a ground nest. These birds migrate south through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, to key wintering sites in Israel, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan and north-west India. Birds winter occasionally in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Oman.It feeds in a similar way, picking insects and other small prey mainly from grassland or arable.
Picture and other detail at
http://www.waders.in/site/news/latest/sightings-of-sociable-lapwing-or-sociable-plover-vanellus-gregarius-in-little-rann-of-kutch-guj.html
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