Southern lapwing

Description:

The friendly and used to sharing spaces with human lapwings can be regularly seen all around the southern coast line of South America. These birds do not build nests and lay there eggs directly on the ground - generally on grass - as seen on the first picture. Once they lay their eggs they both female and male take turns to sit on them until the babybirds hatch. I have notice in different places and several times that they may be apparently calmly sitting on their eggs even in very crowded spaces. Nevertheless, the places they seem to choose to lay their eggs did not seem to be crowded when they made their selection. They tend to choose open places next to shores. Both female and male look alike and they are medium seized birds around 35 centimeteres high. They take care of their baby birds for near a month, till they have grown full size. The babybirds start walking around a couple of hours after they are born and remain near their caring parents survailence while growing.

Habitat:

Mainly South America although it has spread to Central America. It lives in river banks and open grasslands.