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WetlandScrapeMedium · 188 g
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The spur-winged lapwing is a medium-large wader with a black crown, chest, foreneck stripe and tail. The face, the rest of the neck and belly are white and the wings and back are light brown. The bill and legs are black. It has a loud did-he-do-it call. The bird's common name refers to a small claw or spur hidden in each of its wings.
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When to see the Spur-winged Lapwing
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Spur-winged Lapwing
The map shades 55 countries with regular records, and 8 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 India, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, France, Montenegro, Ukraine, New Zealand.
About the Spur-winged Lapwing
The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
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Easily confused with
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.
Yellow-wattled LapwingVanellus malabaricusThese are conspicuous and unmistakable birds found in dry stony and open grassland or scrub habitats.
Grey-headed LapwingVanellus cinereusThe grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long.
Side by side: Blacksmith Lapwing vs Spur-winged Lapwing · Crowned Lapwing vs Spur-winged Lapwing · Spur-winged Lapwing vs Yellow-wattled Lapwing · Grey-headed Lapwing vs Spur-winged Lapwing
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