Profile
In flight
Ghosts of the Past
Javan Lapwing
Vanellus macropterus
- celestial
- 90 km/h
- Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
A long-legged wader of Java's wide grass deltas, marked by two impossible yellow wattles. Last seen in 1940 and nowhere since, despite the fields it loved still being walked.
- Population
- no confirmed records since 1940; almost certainly extinct
- Habitat
- wide steppe-like marshes in river deltas and behind coastal sand dunes on the north and south coasts of Java
- Diet
- insects, worms, and other small invertebrates of wet ground
- Size
- 0.28 m
- Wingspan
- 0.68 m
