The Australian Masked Lapwing Bird

This is an Australian Masked Lapwing bird also known as the masked plover and often called the spur-winged plover or just plover in its native range, is a large, common and conspicuous bird native to Australia, particularly the northern and eastern parts of the continent, New Zealand and New Guinea. The subspecies from northern Australia and New Guinea has an all-white neck and large yellow wattles with the male having a distinctive mask and larger wattles.

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