Brown-chested Lapwing

When to see the Brown-chested Lapwing

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Brown-chested Lapwing

The map shades 7 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Kenya.

About the Brown-chested Lapwing

The brown-chested lapwing, also brown-chested wattled plover, is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It resides year-round in a narrow strip of land from southwestern Nigeria to northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo; its wintering range extends toward Lake Chad, Lake Victoria and northern Zambia.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Spot-breasted LapwingVanellus melanocephalusThe spot-breasted lapwing, also known as the spot-breasted plover, is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. Sociable LapwingVanellus gregariusThis medium-sized lapwing has longish black legs and a short black bill. Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectusThe black-headed lapwing or black-headed plover is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.