It is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight.

They are dull grey brown with a black cap, yellow legs and a triangular wattle at the base of the beak.

Like other lapwings and plovers, they are ground birds and their nest is a mere collection of tiny pebbles within which their well camouflaged eggs are laid.

The yellow-wattled lapwing was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1781.

[2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle.

[8] These are conspicuous and unmistakable birds found in dry stony and open grassland or scrub habitats.

The chin and throat are black and the brown neck and upper breast is separated from the white belly by a narrow blackish line.

Juveniles have a brown crown and the sexes are alike but males have slightly longer wings and tarsi.

[10] Local names include zirdi in Hindi, chitawa in Telugu and jithiri in Rajasthan and Pakistan,[12] pili tatihri in Punjabi, laori[what language is this?]

Hatching success was found to be about 27.58% and egg loss was due to predation and nest damage.