Blacksmith Lapwing

Yes, I understand and imagine.... Thank you very much for the comment. I now have a book about uruguayan birds, maybe it is easier to try to have an idea about birds with children at school...We have been working with this site (www.avesdeuruguay.com) it is about birds in Uruguay and I liked it a lot because I could show them the noise while browsing the bird and showing it too. In the book, which was written by the people who made that web page among others, the Tero Real is considered a Himantopus mexicanus and a black necked stilt. Greetings! =)

Patty, the name refers to its call, sounding like a blacksmith's hammer striking an anvil. What is interesting is that common names can vary from country to country and even within countries, and also the same name can be used for entirely different birds at times, hence the universal use of scientific names for accurate identification. In addition to all this some countries have phases where they decide to change the "official" common names of birds at regular intervals. My South African guide lists more than 100 changes of name between its first publication in 1999 and the next one in 2002! On top of that it does not even bother with scientific names!

I love its colours =) (I wonder why they don´t include both predominant colors in the name though ;) maybe "chess lapwing" was somehow better ;); just sort of having fun following a different track in the flow of our previous posts...) Great spotting =)

Interesting plumage!