Red-wattled lapwing bird: A micro-film, short note, poem and visual symbol

Short note

The red-wattled lapwing - Vanellus indicus wader in the family Charadriidae - is a ground bird that is incapable of perching. It nest in a ground scrape, It lays three to four camouflaged eggs.

It runs and gives high pitch alarm calls when someone approaches sounding as follows: Did-he-do-it

Poem for kids

Lapwing ! Lapwing Birdie

Don’t run away fast

Across the fields ‘n lawns

And don’t sound like a blast

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Your legs are straw thin

Your wings to so long

You fly so gracefully

You can’t perch, what’s wrong