Gray-Headed Lapwing

The gray-headed lapwing has a gray head, neck and upper breast, a black breastband, brown upperparts and a white belly. Its tail is white with a black tip, its bill is yellow with a black tip, its legs are yellow and its iris is red.  Non-breeding adults have a browner head and neck and the black breastband is partially obscured. Juveniles have a brown head and neck and the breastband is absent or more difficult to see. 

Note the gray head, yellow bill and feet, red iris and brown upperparts. These were seen in the Western Range of Kaziranga. 

Here we see the black breastband and white belly. 

It winters in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India, where we saw them in Kaziranga NP in Assam, to Cambodia. It breeds in northeast China and Japan and Japan also has a small area with a permanent population. 

Light blue is non-breeding or winter, orange is breeding or summer and purplish blue is year-round. From Birds of the World. 

Although Kaziranga is a winter range, this brown-headed version must be  more non-breeding than the ones above, has it has a brown head and it has a black breastband so it must not be a juvenile.