Gray-Headed Lapwing

The grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long, with a grey head and neck, a darker grey breast band and a white belly, a brown back, a white rump and a black tail. It is striking in flight, with black primaries, white underwings and upper-wing secondaries, and brown upper-wing coverts. Young birds have the white areas tinged grey, a less distinct breast band and pale fringes to the upperparts. The call is a sharp chee-it (Wikipedia, general species account).

It breeds in north-east China and Japan, nesting from April to July in wet grassland, rice fields and marshland edges, and the mainland population winters in northern Southeast Asia from north-eastern India to Cambodia. It feeds in shallow water on insects, worms and molluscs (Wikipedia, general species account).