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The entirely extinct prehistoric species V. downsi is closely related to the southern lapwing found in California; its remains have been found at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Separated by the Rocky Mountains, V. downsi makes an unlikely ancestor to the southern lapwing, but it is certainly possible that it was a northwestern sister ...
In general, a lapwing can be thought of as a larger plover. In Europe's Anglophone countries, lapwing refers specifically to the northern lapwing , the only member of this group to occur in most of the continent and thus the first bird to go by the English name lapwing (also known as peewit or pyewipe ).
Country Name of bird Scientific name Official status Picture Ref. Afghanistan Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos Yes Albania Golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos Yes Angola Red-crested turaco Tauraco erythrolophus Yes Anguilla Zenaida dove Zenaida aurita Yes Antigua and Barbuda Magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens Yes Argentina Rufous hornero Furnarius rufus Yes [8] Aruba "Prikichi" Brown ...
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Javan lapwing: Vanellus macropterus (Wagler, 1827) 37 Banded lapwing: Vanellus tricolor (Vieillot, 1818) 38 Masked lapwing: Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783) 39 Sociable lapwing: Vanellus gregarius (Pallas, 1771) 40 White-tailed lapwing: Vanellus leucurus (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1823) 41 Southern lapwing: Vanellus chilensis (Molina, 1782) 42 Andean ...
[4] [5] The name was derived by tautonymy from the original binomial name of the northern lapwing Tringa vanellus introduced by Linnaeus in 1758. [5] [6] Vanellus is the Medieval Latin for a "lapwing". It is a diminutive of the Latin vanus meaning "winnowing" or "fan". [7] The systematics of Vanellus have hitherto resisted clear resolution.
The trend in recent years has been to rationalise the common names of the Charadriidae. For example, the large and very common Australian bird traditionally known as the 'spur-winged plover', is now the masked lapwing to avoid conflict with another bird with the same name; and the former 'sociable plover' is now the sociable lapwing.
The food of the spur-winged lapwing is insects and other invertebrates, which are picked from the ground. It lays four blotchy yellowish eggs on a ground scrape. The spur-winged lapwing is known to sometimes use the wing-claws in an attack on animals and, rarely, people, who get too close to the birds' exposed offspring.