The Grey-headed Lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
is a lapwing species breeds in northeast China and Japan. Nesting starts from
April to July in wet grassland, rice fields and marshland edges. It winters in similar habitat and is then gregarious. It feeds in shallow water on insects, worms and molluscs. I got my lifer in Malim Nawar; Khong's playground during the weekend (Selangor Sultan birthday holiday). So the migrants waders are slowly arriving but not the Pranticole le. It is a vagrant to East Malaysia and as far as Australia. Yearly they are most often sighted in northern & central territory of Peninsula.
The Grey-headed Lapwing is 34–37 cm long. It has a grey head and neck, darker grey breast band and white belly. The back is brown, the rump is white and the tail is black. This is a striking species in flight, with black primaries, white under wings and upper wing secondaries, and brown upper wing coverts.
Adults of both sexes are similarly plumaged, but males are slightly larger than
females. Young birds have the white areas of plumage tinged with grey, a less
distinct breast band, and pale fringes to the upperpart and wing covert
feathers. The call of the Grey-headed Lapwing is a sharp chee-it.
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