Escape Into The Wild is blog of Viral Patel and Pankaj Maheria's wildlife photography include animal, bird, marine life, insect and other. We click with Nikon D500, Nikon D7100 and Nikon B700 in sanctuaries of Gujarat and India.!
We visited Chambal
riverbeds at Pali-ghat near Sawai Madhopurduring our RNP visit. Our primary purpose is
watching Gharial in its natural habitat. But we are always up for birding. In our Chambal river visit, we find many
birds including Small Pratincole, Little Cormorant, Indian Skimmer, little Tern
and this beautiful lapwing. It share
Chambal riverside with other resident lapwing, Red-wattled lapwing. At distance,
we observe something different about their head pattern, hunched posture with
head and neck almost cautiously drawn + notable size. When we tried binocular,
it shows crest, without doubt its River Lapwing. River Lapwing, as name
suggests, found primarily along rivers, in fact hardly ever met with away from
them. It is pleasure observing the bird with its crest up. We got some nice
clicks of this beautiful black and white bird while its busy in feeding -
insects - in the sand and vegetation at the riverside. They look elegant with
beautiful blue background of flowing water. Pair is apparently busy in foraging,
running in riverbed and seldom calling. Their call is single-noted
high-pitched, much like Yellow-wattled Lapwings call. We saw total six pairs of River Lapwing at Chambal riverbed that day.It is a common resident at Chambal riverbeds but lifer for us.
