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Northern Lapwing

Photo: @coleiche · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Birds

Northern Lapwing

Vanellus vanellus

Observations in the area
4
Last sighting
30 December 2025
Category
Birds
Conservation status (IUCN)
VU · Vulnerable
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The species

The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit, pewit, tuit or tew-it (imitative of its cry), green plover (emphasising the colour of the plumage) or (in the British Isles) just lapwing (which refers to its pretence of injury by dragging its wing to lure predators away from the nest), is a bird in the lapwing family. It is common through temperate Eurasia.

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