ABOUT THIS SPECIES
SOUTHERN LAPWING – (Species Account Weblog #58)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Charadriiformes,
- FAMILY: Charadriidae,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Vanellus chilensis
A big, crested lapwing, the Southern Lapwing has grey brown upperparts with a bronze sheen, a black breast band that extends as much as the fowl’s brow, wing spurs, and a white stomach and undertail coverts. (from Birds of the World)
SIMILAR SPECIES
Southern Lapwings usually are not simply confused with different species in its vary.
DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
My private “Lifer” was in Costa Rica close to the confluence of the Tárcoles River and the Gulf of Nicoya alongside the banks of the river. We additionally noticed them afterward not removed from Sarapiqui.
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