A Conversation for Colours of Wildlife: Javanese Wattled Lapwing
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Started conversation Oct 4, 2020
I'm assuming that Java is pretty warm year-round, so staying put is not a big problem. I could be wrong.
With no extant specimens, we can't know whether the parents fed their young or not, can we? How did anone decide that that was probable?
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Willem Posted Oct 4, 2020
It's because it's the pattern in ALL of the surviving lapwings as well as in all their close or fairly-close relatives. It's indeed the norm for most of the whole order, the Charadriiformes. So ... if it wasn't so for the Javanese lapwing it would have made it a huge exception to the rule, for no clear reason given its habitat and way of life.
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