White-tailed Lapwing facts 🦜 White-tailed Plover 🦜 breeds in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia скачать в хорошем качестве

White-tailed Lapwing facts 🦜 White-tailed Plover 🦜 breeds in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia

#birddocumentary white-tailed lapwing documentary facts The white-tailed lapwing or white-tailed plover is a wader in the lapwing genus. The genus name Vanellus is Medieval Latin for a lapwing and derives from vannus a winnowing fan. The specific leucurus is from Ancient Greek leukouros, "white-tailed". This medium-sized lapwing is long-legged and fairly long-billed. It is the only lapwing likely to be seen in other than very shallow water, where it picks insects and other small prey mainly from the surface. Adults are slim erect birds with a brown back and foreneck, paler face and grey breast. Its long yellow legs, pure white tail and distinctive brown, white and black wings make this species unmistakable. Young birds have a scaly back, and may show some brown in the tail. It breeds semi-colonially on inland marshes in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. Four eggs are laid in a ground nest. The Iraqi and Iranian breeders are mainly residents, but Russian birds migrate south in winter to the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and north east Africa. In some parts of its distribution range the species faces threats related to habitat destruction and unintentional poaching. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies. credits: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...