Northern Lapwing, Kaziranga, January 2015

I saw my first Northern Lapwing in Kaziranga National Park, Assam where I spent 3 days from 23rd to 25th of January, 2015. I got lucky with the bird's call as well. However, the credit for the call ID goes to our guide cum driver Jhunnu who told me it was a Northern Lapwing that was calling. I saw the bird but couldn't make out if it was calling.

It is funny that although Xeno-Canto has a lot of Northern Lapwing calls, all of them are from Europe. There is almost nothing from their wintering grounds like India. There is one of zero second and another of one second. I could hear nothing when I played them.

I recorded this call with my Marantz PMD 661 Mk II and Sennheiser K6/ME66 combination in a Rode blimp.