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WetlandScrapeMedium · 270 g
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The grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long. It has a grey head and neck, darker grey breast band and white belly. The back is brown, the rump is white and the tail is black. This is a striking species in flight, with black primaries, white under wings and upper wing secondaries, and brown upper wing coverts. Adults of both sexes are similarly plumaged, but males are slightly larger than females. Young birds have the white areas of plumage tinged with grey, a less distinct breast band, and pale fringes to the upperpart and wing covert feathers.
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When to see the Grey-headed Lapwing
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Grey-headed Lapwing
The map shades 23 countries with regular records, and 5 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 Australia, Norway, Netherlands, Russia, Indonesia.
About the Grey-headed Lapwing
The grey-headed lapwing is a lapwing species which breeds in northeast China and Japan. The mainland population winters in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia. The Japanese population winters, at least partially, in southern Honshū.
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Easily confused with
River LapwingVanellus duvauceliiThe river lapwing is 29–32 cm long.
Andean LapwingVanellus resplendensThe Andean lapwing is about 33 cm (13 in) long and weighs 193 to 230 g (6.8 to 8.1 oz).
White-tailed LapwingVanellus leucurusThe white-tailed lapwing or white-tailed plover is a wader in the lapwing genus.
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