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WetlandScrapeMedium · 192 g
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This lapwing is unmistakable. Its wings and tail are strikingly patterned in black and white, the back is brown and the underparts white. The head is particularly striking, being mainly grey, but with a white crown and foreneck. The eyering, facial wattles and legs are yellow. Females, males and young birds are similar in plumage.
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When to see the White-crowned Lapwing
One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is November, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-crowned Lapwing
The map shades 27 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Angola.
About the White-crowned Lapwing
The white-crowned lapwing, white-headed lapwing, white-headed plover or white-crowned plover is a medium-sized wader. It is resident throughout tropical Africa, usually near large rivers.
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Easily confused with
Banded LapwingVanellus tricolorThe banded lapwing is a medium-sized shorebird with short dark purplish legs and a dull red tibia.
White-tailed LapwingVanellus leucurusThe white-tailed lapwing or white-tailed plover is a wader in the lapwing genus.
Long-toed LapwingVanellus crassirostrisThe long-toed lapwing measures 31 cm (12 in) in length with a body mass of 162–225 g (5.7–7.9 oz).
Side by side: Andean Lapwing vs White-crowned Lapwing · Banded Lapwing vs White-crowned Lapwing · Rufous-chested Dotterel vs White-crowned Lapwing · Long-toed Lapwing vs White-crowned Lapwing
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