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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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These birds even lay their eggs on piles of cow or horse dung, most likely to elevate them from the cold ground and possibly provide some heating through the process of rotting plant material. Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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times more efficient in its foraging if there were cows around. This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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