Gabriel Rojo / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) La Pampa, Argentina

Nick Garbutt / Male Southern Lapwings (Vanellus chilensis) displaying in grasslands, Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil, South America.

David Perpinan / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) arriving at nest and incubating eggs, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

Hermann Brehm / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) Pantanal, Brazil.

Bernard Castelein / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) St Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

Gabriel Rojo / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) La Pampa, Argentina

Barrie Britton / Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), Pantanal, Brazil. Taken on location for BBC Wild Brazil series.

Gabriel Rojo / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) La Pampa , Argentina

Gabriel Rojo / Southern lapwing 1+Vanellus chilensis+2 synchronized courtship display flight, La Pampa, Argentina

Gabriel Rojo / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) in with spur on its wing, in snowy grassland, La Pampa , Argentina

Ole Jorgen Liodden / Southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis fretensis) Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, March.

Nick Garbutt / Male Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis) displaying in grasslands. Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil, South America.