Australia's BEST Bird Parents - Plovers | Bird Tales

This is a video about Australia's best bird parents - Plovers (or masked lapwing). A very quirky and angry bird, but extremely protective of their babies. The ultimate helicopter parents.
Plovers get a really bad reputation for their aggression but in reality it's for protecting their young'uns. If a bird ever needed a PR team, it would probably be the Plover.

This is episode 2 of an ongoing series called Bird Tales, so please sit back and enjoy this 2 minute 58 second video about Plovers.

Cheers!

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Shot on the Nikon Z9 and the new Nikon 180-600 lens.

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[benjidoggo]

I have fond memories of being in primary school and every recess and lunch seeing kids cowering and screaming because of the swooping plovers. I was really scared of them back then. These days I walk through the field and see them swooping down on me, I don't run or scream, or duck and cower. I just walk past their nest without any troubles. Really if you are big enough I don't think they'll actually hit you. I've never been hit myself. Anyways, great video!

[sammartin]

Another great video! Those plover chicks are adorable! ☺

[Catherinzsl]

I agree with your call on plovers being great parents. We have them over here in New Zealand, too, and I enjoy watching them be chill/aloof for most of the year and then turn into militant protectors while nesting and rearing their chicks.

I'm also amazed at how the parents sit on their nest during the coldest, rainiest, windiest weeks of winter, completely exposed to the elements in empty fields. During a storm, I once asked a nesting plover if it would like a hot cup of tea, and it said, "Nah, mate, I'm fine." And it was fine, and went on to have three fuzzy little chicks.

Thanks for the great video with awesome footage, and for putting in a good word for plovers as parents. 💛

[paulkinzer]

Barbed wings!? Another new Australian thing for me. Amazing, and lovely. Thanks for the great footage!

[-by-_Publishing_LLC]

(1:00) The cinematography in this video is exceptional. ... _Well done!_

[davidyates]

Great photography. I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[clairedelor]

Love the video! We have a nest on our front loan with 4 adorable fluffy chicks and two very controlling parents 😂 We've been reading a lot about masked lapwing now that we're forced to be flatmates! I'll show this video to my kids, they will love it!

[bob-cat]

Barbed wings! Looks like the guy with the bandaged leg took some damage.

[kushagraacharya]

I just got confronted by one of these in a parking lot today at the University of the Sunshine Coast! At first I had no idea what was going on, but then I noticed the tiny fluffy chicks walking around nearby. Totally made sense why the parent was being so defensive. Had to look them up right after – turns out they're called Masked Lapwings. Nature’s little bodyguards! 😅🕊

[louanneneill]

Watching this as I now I have a family living in my yard!

[VHSandDVDLoverEstAVGCP]

When plovers catch you going near the nest during their swooping season you know you’re fucked

[rickyn]

Love them, my favorite bird. I try to help them look after their babies every year (spotlighting foxes etc) but 75% (6 out of 8) so far have been killed by foxes, myna birds and ravens.

[torim]

My local plover laid an egg in the middle of the yard so I moved it as my husband was mowing. I’m worried the plovers won’t know where the egg is. I held it up and made noise but I don’t think they took any notice 😢

[cheryl]

best or ....bit silly sometimes as to where they take up residence...also i have seen where the can take out 50cent piece size clumps of hair ..twice..both kids lost pgment to that area of hair when it finally grew back...dont mess with them when nesting. ..they even play dead or injured to distract you away from from their eggs..so thats smart i guess

[Dustin-oh]

Plumbers plumbers are worse than Magpies have fun with the plumbers

[RonLucock]

Very parental, yes, but when they walk up & down your street from 1:00am - 5:00am every single f*cking night making that screeching sound calling to their mate kilometres away, it literally drives you mad. My wife got out of bed at 5:00am one morning to shoo them off our front lawn, slipped on the sloped, wet driveway in light rain, fell & broke her shoulder. Had to be taken to hospital in an Ambulance with a morphine stick in her mouth while the bird just kept on walking & squawking. I hate these birds with all my being.

[ShadyRipple]

honestly hate these bastards. Always swooping me when i try to walk home

[trevortachankaericrodrigue]

Their horrible parents. Laying their eggs and raising their kids in the middle of a busy school oval.

[trepmag]

MASKED LAPWING, not plover.
Get the facts correct before you post false information.