Red-wattled Lapwing on the River Ken, Madhya Pradesh, India, Central Asia
The red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus) is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as "did he do it" or "pity to do it" leading to the colloquial name of did-he-do-it bird. The Ken River, is one of the major rivers of the Bundelkhand region of central India, and flows through two states, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It is a tributary of the Yamuna. Panna National Park is a national park located in Panna and Chhatarpur districts of Madhya Pradesh in India. It has an area of km2 ( sq mi). It was declared in 1993 as the twenty second Tiger reserve of India and the fifth in Madhya Pradesh, Panna was given the Award of Excellence in 2007 as the best maintained national park of India by the Ministry of Tourism of India. It is notable that by 2009, the entire tiger population had been eliminated by poaching with the collusion of forest department officials. It was designated as Biosphere Reserve on 25 August , crocodile bark, Arjun, jamun, etc are trees present here.
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Location: Ken River Lodge, Ken River, Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India, Central Asia
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