White-headed Lapwing?
White-headed Plover?
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White-headed Lapwing?
White-headed Plover?
More information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapwing
Why two names?
In the readers Digest book "Birds" There Life-There Ways-There World, on page 249 they refere to this bird as a White-headed Plover and that it is more commonly called a "Lapwing"
In Collins Illustrated Checklist Birds Of Eastern Africa and on plate #31.2 shows the bird and calls it a White-headed Lapwing.
Both books refer to it as the same genus called "Vanellus tectus"
However, in looking into the Plovers I see their genus is called "Charadrius pallidus"
Not being a very good bird identifier I find this most difficult to under stand.
However it is a very pretty bird and I really don't care what it is called,
it's just that I have never run across a bird with two different names both common and genus.
Habitat is sandy river banks.
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