The Red-wattled Lapwing is a distinctive Asian bird known for its loud, persistent alarm calls often described as “did-he-do-it”. It is a ground-dwelling wader common across South and Southeast Asia.

It is a medium-sized bird with a bold black, white, and brown plumage. Its key features are prominent red, fleshy wattles in front of each eye and a black-tipped red bill, along with long yellow legs. It is typically found in open country near water bodies, agricultural fields, and dry plains. It is a ground bird and incapable of perching on trees or branches.

It is well-known for being highly vigilant, the red-wattled lapwing is often the first to detect intruders and raise an alarm, which can be a nuisance to hunters or birders or photographers but beneficial to other wildlife. They are fiercely protective parents and will fly around, diving at potential predators near their ground nests, which always consist of four eggs, no more, no less. The bird’s diet mainly consists of insects, snails, and other invertebrates, which it forages from the ground.

They are very common all over Seberang Perai especially paddy fields, and can even be heard in urban areas at night where they presumably occupying some abandoned or fallow fields.

https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/red-wattled-lapwing-vanellus-indicus