25K views · 1.3K reactions | A young Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles) foraging on the shore on the Sunshine Coast in southeast Queensland, Australia. ~Deane. | The Owl & Nature Page | Facebook

Masked lapwing chicks (colloquially known as plovers) are by far the cutest Australian baby birds and it’s easy to see why their Mums and Dads are ready to give you a hard time if you wander to close to the nursery ground. These babies — hatch precocial. “precocial" means that masked lapwing chicks hatch in an extremely advanced state of development compared to many other birds. For lapwings, this looks like: • Fully mobile at hatching – the chicks can walk and run within hours of emerging from

5.2K views · 243 reactions | 2024.09.10 - Masked Lapwing. I wonder if Mrs Lapwing is telling the last chick ‘it’s time to enter the big wide world’. I am amazed these 3 chicks are less than 24 hours old and they are already out and about. | Port Lincoln Osprey | Facebook

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