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Red-Wattled Lapwing 
(Te vặt,Vanellus indicus)

The red-wattled lapwing is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae.

Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").
The name "vanellus" is Latin for "little fan", vanellus being the diminutive of vannus ("winnowing fan").
indicus: India.

Vanellus is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all lapwings except red-kneed dotterel, Erythrogonys cinctus. The name "vanellus" is Latin for "little fan", vanellus being the diminutive of vannus ("winnowing fan").

1/ River lapwing (Te cựa, Vanellus duvaucelii)

2/ Northern lapwing (Te mào, Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing

3/ Grey-headed lapwing (Te vàng, Vanellus cinereus)

4/ Red-wattled lapwing (Te vặt,Vanellus indicus)