Learn what every symbol on the card means.Full credits and sources at beakbrain.com/symbols
GrasslandScrapeMedium · 165 g
ID tip
The crowned lapwing is easily recognized by its combination of brown and white colours, with most tellingly, a black crown intersected by an annular white halo. Adults are noisy and conspicuous. Males measure on average 3% larger than females. Juveniles are dull versions of adults, vermiculated on the wings and mantle, the legs yellowy rather than red and the bill lacking the red base.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
When to see the Crowned Lapwing
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Crowned Lapwing
The map shades 18 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Crowned Lapwing
The crowned lapwing, or crowned plover, is a bird of the lapwing subfamily that occurs contiguously from the Red Sea coast of Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. It is an adaptable and numerous species, with bold and noisy habits. It is related to the more localized black-winged and Senegal lapwings, with which it shares some plumage characteristics.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Easily confused with
Spur-winged LapwingVanellus spinosusThe spur-winged lapwing is a medium-large wader with a black crown, chest, foreneck stripe and tail.
Blacksmith LapwingVanellus armatusBlacksmith lapwings are very boldly patterned in black, grey and white, possibly warning colours to predators.
African Wattled LapwingVanellus senegallusThe African wattled lapwing, also known as the Senegal wattled plover or simply wattled lapwing, is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
Side by side: Blacksmith Lapwing vs Crowned Lapwing · Crowned Lapwing vs Spur-winged Lapwing
Learn the Crowned Lapwing in the BeakBrain App
Photo and call practice. Coming soon to iPhone and Android.
Play today's Daily BirdEvery photo and recording on this page is credited to its author under the licence shown. Spotted a problem with this page, or have a better photo? Contribute.