The Grey-headed Lapwing is a migratory shorebird breeding in East Asia (China, Japan) and wintering in Southeast Asia including West Malaysia, favouring wet, marshy, and in particular cultivated rice fields. These gregarious, brownish birds with distinctive gray heads, bright yellow bills, and striking black-and-white wing patterns feed on insects, worms, and crustaceans, giving grating calls, and are common throughout their wintering grounds here.

There are can be gregarious on migration or on passage, but sometimes in smaller loose flocks, and usually with the resident Red-Wattled Lapwings, when wintering here.

They can be very silent and discreet in the paddyfields of Seberang Perai, but a flock can usually be found in the paddyfields of all three districts of Seberang Perai. They are less often found in coastal and other open habitat, like golf courses and other none paddyfield agricultural landscape. It is estimated there are about few hundred wintering Lapwings in all three districts, making a total of about less than a thousand.