The River Lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii) is a lapwing species which breeds from the Indian Subcontinent eastwards to Southeast Asia. It range includes much of northern and northeastern India, stretching towards Myanmar, to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. It appears to be entirely sedentary. Formerly also called Spur-winged Lapwing, this name is better reserved for one of the "Spur-winged Plovers" of old, Vanellus spinosus of Africa, whose scientific name it literally translates. The Masked Lapwing of Australasia was at one time also called "Spur-winged Plover", completing the name confusion - particularly as none of these is a plover in the strict sense.
This species resembles the closely related Spur-winged Lapwing of Africa, and has sometimes been considered conspecific. The species name commemorates Alfred Duvaucel.
The River Lapwing is 29--32 cm long. It has a black crest, crown, face and central throat and grey-white neck sides and nape. It has a grey-brown breast band and white underparts with a black belly patch. The back is brown, the rump is white and the tail is black. This is a striking species in flight, with black primaries, white under wings and upper wing secondaries, and brown upper wing coverts.
Adults of both sexes are similarly plumaged, but males are slightly larger than females. Young birds have the brown tips to the black head feathers, a sandier brown back, and pale fringes to the upperpart and wing covert feathers. The call of the River Lapwing is a sharp tip-tip or did-did-did.
The Denwa River is a tributary of Tawa River which in turn joins the Narmada River and is the lifeline river of the centre of India - Madhya Pradesh.
The breeding display, given on the ground, includes stooping, spinning, stretching and crest-raising.
The River Lapwing nests on shingle and sand banks from March to June. It lays two eggs on a ground scrape. It feeds on insects, worms, crustaceans and molluscs in nearby wet grassland and farmland. It is not gregarious.
Denwa River is a lifeline river of Satpura National Park. This river originates from the south-eastern part of Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh State and flows from east to west direction before joining the Tawa river south of Rainpur. Location of Denwa river is Latitude: 22.746128 & Longitude: 77.719356. At the confluence of the Tawa & Denwa rivers, Tawa dam has been constructed. River offers a number of activities to visitors. While boating on Denwa River one can enjoy the scenic beauty of Satpura National Park with bird-watching and sighting of marsh crocodiles. In order to do a Satpura National Park Safari, tourists have to cross the river through motorboats. All these rivers are tributaries of the holy Narmada river, known as lifeline of Central India. It is an ever-green river assuring availability of water to wildlife nestling in this forest.
The Denwa is a river originating around Dhupgarh, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Among the complex of hills around the Pachmarhi plateau a line of hills extends from Dhupgarh (1350 m.) to Burimal (1088 m.) located about 15 km in the south. Their eastern eaters flow into the Denwa and the western into Sonbhadra. The Denwa river rises at the Denwa Khud south of the plateau and circuits it, flowing to the south, east, north and the west. The Denwa joins the Tawa near Bagra and is an equally important waterway.
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