White-tailed Plover - Vanellus leucurus
I thought I'd post a local bird tonight. I snapped this today at the Pivot fields just outside of Dubai. These are a smart member of the lapwing family which breeds in warm lattitudes across the Middle East and further East. They feed on large insects and beetles and like all lapwings and plovers are a ground nesting bird. I could not see a partner for this bird but it did mob me and make a circular alarm flight so I am sure there was breeding activity nearby. Red-wattled Lapwing breed at the site so White-tailed Plover could as well.
Below hopefully a slighly better more recent picture -
White-tailed Plover - Vanellus leucurus
Pivot Fields, Dubai
4 June 2011
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