#Vanellus

[herpsandbirds]

Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, Gajoldoba, West Bengal, India

photograph by Kaushik Sengupta

[alonglistofbirds]

[2833/11080] Crowned lapwing - Vanellus coronatus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Charadriidae Subfamily: Vanellinae (lapwings)

Photo credit: Nik Borrow via Macaulay Library

[birdblues]

Yellow-wattled Lapwing

[kristo-flowers]

Flight of the lapwings

[ifelten]

Vibe (Vanellus vanellus)

Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

[eukaryotesrool]

Northern Lapwing

Or in Bigwordese Vanellus vanellus (Ah, I love species names that just repeat the generic name) AKA peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, or even pyewipe,(all onomatopoeic of the birds song(s)) or green plover.

Their name 'lapwing' comes from the lapping sound their large wings make in flight, they are also known to make strange tottering motions in flight, but are capable of flying more regularly.

V. vanellus songs (catchy)

V. vanellus tottering example (majestic)

(A juvenile Northern Lapwing)

These shorebirds (or waders, for you Europeans) live/travel across much of the palearctic and oriental biogeographical regions, from Russia to North Africa and China, they mate in solitary pairs, the mother taking the head in incubating, and the father in protecting, though, these roles may be swapped out from individual pair to pair.

They are precocial, meaning that they're capable of moving and eating (mostly Earth worms and leatherjackets) on their own from the moment they hatch, parents and even unrelated Northern lapwings will participate in mobbing (where a prey species essentially gangs up on and bullies one of their predators) and deception to protect endangered chicks.

Adults eat grains, small fish, and invertebrates.

Rated near threatened by the IUCN their population has been on decline for several reasons including, but not limited to, newly introduced predators, hunting by humans, egg stealing by humans, new agricultural methods as they make good use of arable and otherwise agricultural land, and wetland drainage, which they also made use of.

Various actions are being taken by the EU and other groups to keep their situation from getting worse, lets hope it works out for these lovely feathered fellows.

LOOK AT THE LIL CHICK!!!!

[sugiichi]

Vanellus vanellus [タゲリ,Northern lapwing]

夕暮れの田んぼに集まってました。 在庫から。

[inatungulates]

Indian sambar Rusa unicolor unicolor

With house crow Corvus splendens (on young sambar), red-wattled lapwing Vanellus indicus (left and right background), and black-headed ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus (center background)

Observed by reginchen, CC BY-NC

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Lapwing.

[aesthetic-birds]

Crowned Lapwing (Vanellus coronatus)

© Jean-Louis Carlo

[herpsandbirds]

River Lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii), family Charadriidae, order Charadriiformes, WB, India

photograph by Jeyaramsankar Gurusamy

[alonglistofbirds]

[1804/10977] Brown-chested lapwing - Vanellus superciliosus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Charadrii Family: Charadriidae Subfamily: Vanellinae (lapwings)

Photo credit: Jean-Louis Carlo via Macaulay Library

[birdblues]

Southern Lapwing

[perfect-plumage]

Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

© brian waller

[fascinator-birds]

Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

© brian waller

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Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)

© Kannan AS