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Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
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About the Northern Lapwing
The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia.
Source: Wikipedia
Classification
- Scientific name
- Vanellus vanellus
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Similar species
Other members of the plovers and lapwings family recorded in North America — a useful place to start if you are not certain of your identification.
- American Golden-Plover Pluvialis dominica
- Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
- Collared Plover Anarhynchus collaris
- Common Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
- Eurasian Dotterel Eudromias morinellus
- European Golden-Plover Pluvialis apricaria
- Greater Sand-Plover Anarhynchus leschenaultii
- Kentish Plover Anarhynchus alexandrinus
- Killdeer Charadrius vociferus
- Little Ringed Plover Thinornis dubius
- Mountain Plover Anarhynchus montanus
- Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva
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