ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE PLOVERS, SNIPES, AND IMMEDIATE ALLIES
Wattled Plovers
As an example of a group of some eight or nine genera of mainly Old World forms, in which the tarsus is transversely scaled in front and reticulated behind, we may only mention the Wattled Plovers (Lobiva-nellus), three of the four known species of which are confined to Africa and the other to Australia.
They are about a foot in length and may be distinguished at once by the presence of a distinct facial wattle and a well-developed spur on the wing, as well as by a small hind toe and somewhat lobed bill.
Of the several species the Senegal Wattled Plover (L. senegalus) is a striking example, being brown tinged with green above, the wings black, and the tail white crossed by a broad black bar, while the chin is white, the throat black, and the remaining under parts dove-color; the wattle before the eye is yellow tinged with orange-red. It frequents river banks and the borders of marshes, singly, in pairs, or small flocks, and feeds largely on insects and small mollusks.
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