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Pukeko birds and a duck in the wetland park

Dramatic landscape in Ruoergai National Wetland Park, China

African wattled lapwing in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.

$The fulvous whistling duck or fulvous tree duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) is a species of whistling duck that breeds across the world's tropical regions in much of Mexico and South America, the West Indies, the southern United States, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It has plumage that is mainly reddish brown, long legs and a long grey bill, and shows a distinctive white band across its black tail in flight. Like other members of its ancient lineage, it has a whistling call which is given in flight or on the ground. Its preferred habitat consists of wetlands with plentiful vegetation, including shallow lakes and paddy fields. The nest, built from plant material and unlined, is placed among dense vegetation or in a tree hole. The typical clutch is around ten whitish eggs. The breeding adults, which pair for life, take turns to incubate, and the eggs hatch in 24–29 days. The downy grey ducklings leave the nest within a day or so of hatching, but the parents continue to protect them until they fledge around nine weeks later.\n\nThe fulvous whistling duck feeds in wetlands by day or night on seeds and other parts of plants. It is sometimes regarded as a pest of rice cultivation, and is also shot for food in parts of its range. Despite hunting, poisoning by pesticides and natural predation by mammals, birds, and reptiles, the large numbers and huge range of this duck mean that it is classified as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.$

A goose hiding in reeds at the edge of a pond in the Peak Districyt National Park in England

Black-headed gull or Chroicocephalus ridibundus, is a species of black-faced bird in the family Laridae

Greylag Goose on a lakeside nest in Gosforth Nature Reserve, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. This viewed at a distance from a permanent hide.

Flock of White-faced Whistling Ducks in Amboseli NP Wetlands

Tiny black-fronted dotterel by the water’s edge

One Lapwing standing on a piece of grassland at the edge of the lagoon and looking to the left. The bird is reflected in the water.

A group of black bellied whistling ducks forages and rests in a wetland in southern Costa Rica.

Beautiful grey partridge (Perdix perdix) standing in a meadow.

Last month these Metopidus indicus younglings were only balls of fluff. They are a wader in the Jacanidae family. They have huge feet to help them walk on vegetation.

Sacred Ibis and Egyptian Goose in Amboseli NP Wetland

A northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus on the look out in its territory in grassland habitat

Tiny black-fronted dotterel by the water

The Grey-Headed Swamphen, occurring from the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent to southern China and northern Thailand.

Closeup a flock of juvenile Common moorhen, waterhen or swamp chicken, low angle view, side shot, relaxing and dressing up on the riverbank of the wild swamp in tropical moist rainforest, in wetland of southern Thailand.

Greylag goose in a reedbed at Gosforth Park Nature Reserve.

Red-wattled Lapwing moving around the wetland in Norther India

Unusual black and white duck or goose with red head and beak.

Hydrophasianus chirurgus is a bird belonging to the Jacanidae family, characterised by their wide feet and claws which allow them to walk on floating vegetation.

$Taxon name: Banded Lapwing\nTaxon scientific name: Vanellus tricolor\nLocation: Winton, Queensland, Australia$

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