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What the Sociable Lapwing sounds like
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This medium-sized lapwing has longish black legs and a short black bill. Non breeding individuals in winter have light brown wings with a striking head pattern. The sociable lapwing has a black crown and eyestripe, the latter being bordered above and below with white. The underside of the bird is white. Its long-ish black legs, white tail with a black terminal band and distinctive brown, white and grey wings make it almost unmistakable in flight. The summer breeding plumage is much more vivid.
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When to see the Sociable Lapwing
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Sociable Lapwing
The map shades 27 countries with regular records, and 11 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 Netherlands, Finland, India, Georgia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Pakistan, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia.
About the Sociable Lapwing
The sociable lapwing, referred to as the sociable plover in the UK, is a wader in the plover family. It is a fully migratory bird, breeding in Kazakhstan and wintering in the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and Sudan with a very small wintering population in Iberia. Historical literature referred to this bird as the black-bellied lapwing.
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Easily confused with
Black-headed LapwingVanellus tectusThe black-headed lapwing or black-headed plover is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
Spot-breasted LapwingVanellus melanocephalusThe spot-breasted lapwing, also known as the spot-breasted plover, is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae.
Brown-chested LapwingVanellus superciliosusThe brown-chested lapwing, also brown-chested wattled plover, is a species of bird in the family Charadriidae.
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