Senegal Lapwing

When to see the Senegal 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 Senegal Lapwing

The map shades 21 countries with regular records, and 3 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 Mali, Mayotte, Somalia.

About the Senegal Lapwing

The Senegal lapwing, lesser black-winged lapwing or lesser black-winged plover is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae. It is found in the African countries of Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eswatini, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It lives primarily in open grassy habitats.

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Easily confused with

Black-winged LapwingVanellus melanopterusA black breast band separates the lapwing's grey head and neck from the white underside. Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectusThe black-headed lapwing or black-headed plover is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. Sociable LapwingVanellus gregariusThis medium-sized lapwing has longish black legs and a short black bill.