In search of the Grey-Headed Lapwing to photograph, I headed off to Cenang River, Langkawi with another birder, Tom Reynolds. Tom has been there a couple of times and saw this lapwing in that area.
Grey-Headed Lapwing Vanellus cinereus is a migratory lapwing while our local lapwing is the noisy and shrieky Red-Wattled Lapwing Vanellus indicus.
Despite the extreme dry season this year, this small river is not completely dried up yet even though its surrounding is almost barren.
We arrived at 8am and were delighted to see about three Slaty-Breasted Rails Gallirallus striatus running and dashing into the dried reed. The usual migrants are around like the Chinese Pond Herons Ardeola bacchus, Little Egrets Egretta garzetta, Wood Sandpipers Tringa glareloa, Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum and Pacific Golden Plovers Pluvialis fulva. Some of these migrants have turned to breeding plumage and is about time to head home.
