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• Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.
• The resident tropical plovers have much less pointed wings, and most of the lapwings have fairly rounded wing-tips, a wing shape apparently more adapted to aerial manoeuvrability than to long-distance migration.
• Lapwings are abundant winter visitors to the area but, like the Golden Plovers, vary greatly in number between years.
• This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.