# Vanellus miles miles

- By: Toby Hudson
- Date: 2010-07-23
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vanellus_miles_miles.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Vanellus_miles_miles.jpg/1920px-Vanellus_miles_miles.jpg
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A bird from the northern subspecies of the Masked Lapwing (Vanellus miles miles) on the sandy foreshore of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The northern species can be identified from the fact that it does not have a black neck stripe separating the white from the brown.