Nature and Trees Birds - Purple Swamphen , Red wattled Lapwing & Yellow wattled Lapwing

This is another 3 kinds of birds which I really liked captured during my holidays.They are few of my favourites :) When I filmed the red wattled Lapwings there was a strong wind near the lake so you will hear the wind disturbance. At 57sec - 1.12min you can hear the calls of Swamphen.
Purple Swamphen
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The Purple Swamphen also known as the Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule,or Purple Coot, is a large bird in the family Rallidae.This chicken-sized bird, with its huge feet, bright plumage and red bill and frontal shield is easily-recognisable in its native range.

There are 13 or more subspecies of the Purple Swamphen which differ mainly in plumage colour.The subspecies groups are: in Africa, in tropical Asia, & in Australasia, European birds are overall purple-blue, African and south Asian birds have a green back, and Australasian and Indonesian birds have black backs and heads.

The species is highly dispersive.They has a very loud explosive call described as a "raucous high-pitched screech, with a subdued musical tuk-tuk". It is particularly noisy during the breeding season. Despite being clumsy in flight it can fly long distances, and it is a good swimmer, especially for a bird without webbed feet.

They are generally seasonal breeders, The Purple Swamphen breeds in warm reed beds. The male has an elaborate courtship display, holding water weeds in his bill and bowing to the female with loud chuckles.These groups may consist of multiple females and males sharing a nest or a male female pair with helpers drawn from previous clutches.
Pairs nest in a large pad of interwoven reed flags, etc., on a mass of floating debris or amongst matted reeds slightly above water level in swamps, clumps of rushes in paddocks or long unkempt grass.

They prefer wet areas with high rainfall, swamps, lake edges and damp pastures.It clambers through the reeds, eating the tender shoots and vegetable-like matter. They have been known to eat eggs, ducklings, small fish and invertebrates such as snails. They will often use one foot to bring food to their mouth rather than eat it on the ground.

Red-wattled Lapwing
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The Red-wattled Lapwing is a lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. It has characteristic loud alarm calls which are variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to colloquial names like the did-he-do-it bird.Usually seen in pairs or small groups not far from water .
They are large waders.They have red fleshy wattle in front of each eye, black-tipped red bill, and the long legs are yellow.
It usually keeps in pairs or trios in well-watered open country, ploughed fields, grazing land, and margins and dry beds of tanks and puddles. It runs about in short spurts and dips forward obliquely to pick up food.They are said to feed at night being especially active around the full moon.Is uncannily and ceaselessly vigilant, day or night, and is the first to detect intrusions and raise an alarm, and was therefore considered a nuisance by hunters.

The breeding season is mainly March to August. The courtship involves the male puffing its feathers and pointing its beak upwards.The eggs are laid in a ground scrape or depression sometimes fringed with pebbles. Nests are difficult to find since the eggs are cryptically coloured and usually matches the ground pattern.
Like other lapwings, they soak their belly feathers to provide water to their chicks as well as to cool the eggs during hot weather.The diet of the lapwing includes a range of insects, snails and other invertebrates, mostly picked from the ground. They may also feed on some grains.

Yellow-wattled Lapwing
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The Yellow-wattled Lapwing is a lapwing that is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. It is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight.These are conspicuous and unmistakable birds found in dry stony and open grassland or scrub habitats.They are medium-sized pale brown waders with a black crown which is separated from the brown on the neck by a narrow white band and large yellow facial wattles. The call is a sharp tchee-it call.It tends to be seen in drier habitats than the Red-wattled Lapwing,They are found in most parts of India, parts of Pakistan Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. They make short distance movements in response to rain.
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