Grey-headed lapwing

Grey-headed lapwing
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Vanellus
Species:
V. cinereus
Binomial name
Vanellus cinereus
(Blyth, 1842)
Synonyms

Hoplopterus cinereus (Blyth, 1842)
Microsarcops cinereus (Blyth, 1842)
Pluvianus cinereus Blyth, 1842

The grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus) is a lapwing species which breeds in northeast China and Japan. The mainland population winters in northern Southeast Asia from northeastern India to Cambodia. The Japanese population winters, at least partially, in southern Honshū.

In flight at Kathmandu Valley, Nepal.

This species has occurred as a vagrant in Russia, the Philippines, Indonesia, New South Wales, Australia and Sri Lanka,[1] as well as Sweden and England.[2]

Description

The grey-headed lapwing is 34–37 cm long. It has a grey head and neck, darker grey breast band and white belly. The back is brown, the rump is white and the tail is black. This is a striking species in flight, with black primaries, white under wings and upper wing secondaries, and brown upper wing coverts.

Adults of both sexes are similarly plumaged, but males are slightly larger than females. Young birds have the white areas of plumage tinged with grey, a less distinct breast band, and pale fringes to the upperpart and wing covert feathers. The call of the grey-headed lapwing is a sharp chee-it.

The first grey-headed lapwing seen in Britain was on 1 May 2023 at Newton-by-the-Sea in Northumberland.

Behaviour

This species nests from April to July in wet grassland, rice fields and marshland edges. It winters in similar habitat and is then gregarious. It feeds in shallow water on insects, worms and molluscs.

References

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  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2016). "Vanellus cinereus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22694010A93433492. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22694010A93433492.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Grey-headed lapwing: Sighting in Northumberland is UK first". BBC News. 2023-05-02. Retrieved 2023-06-20.

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