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	Lapwing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lapwings are medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae of the family Charadriidae, which also includes the plovers and dotterels.
		The traditional terms plover, lapwing, and dotterel were coined long before modern understandings of the relationships between different groups of birds emerged: in consequence, several of the lapwings (subfamily Vanellinae) are still called "plovers", and the reverse also applies.
		Although the most familiar northern hemisphere lapwing, Northern Lapwing, has a wispy crest, only two other species do so.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lapwing (218 words)

	Lapwing
		The Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the Northern Lapwing or Peewit is a bird in the plover family.
		It is common through central and northern Europe, and central Russia.
		It is a medium-sized fl and white bird with rounded wings and a crest, and is to be more commonly found on open land - particularly arable land and mud-flats.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lapwing.html (92 words)

	British Garden Birds - Lapwing
		The Lapwing is our largest wader, about pigeon-sized, and is also known as the Peewit or Green Plover.
		British Lapwings are mostly resident, but some migrate westwards in to Ireland and others fly south to France and Spain.
		The decline is largely a result of autumn sowing of crops, which results in crops being too tall for the Lapwings, and a reduction in uncultivated grassland through increased hill farming.
	www.garden-birds.co.uk /birds/lapwing.htm (386 words)

	Northern Lapwing
		This could be the Dutch National Bird, because 70% of all European Northern Lapwings spend their summer in Holland.
		Lapwings are good and elegant flyers that are very acrobatic in the air.
		The Northern Lapwing is easy to recognize: the tuft always gives it away, even from a great distance.
	www.gardensafari.net /english/pages/kievit.htm (659 words)

	Plovers
		With only one exception, the white-tailed lapwing, plovers do not wade in water in the same way or to the same extent as other shorebirds; most walk in damp areas or along the water's edge, while some species are adapted for feeding in more arid areas away from water altogether.
		Lapwings often have a crest, wattles, and/or wing spurs.
		cinereus); the northern lapwing of northern Africa and Eurasia (V.
	www.slywy.com /writings/plovers.html (1081 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Northern lapwing sighting has birders' hopes soaring
		BRENDAN A. This northern lapwing in Thurmont, Md., may have gotten lost or been blown off course by high winds.
		Jim Swarr, a Florida retiree, scans the skies for the elusive northern lapwing, which usually winters in East Asia but was seen this week for the first time in Maryland.
		The northern lapwing winters in Asia Minor, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002183510_bird18.html?syndication=rss (839 words)

	Lapwing - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lapwings are found on farmland throughout the UK particularly in lowland areas of northern England, the Borders and eastern Scotland.
		The highest known winter concentrations of lapwings are found at the Somerset Levels, Humber and Ribble estuaries, Breydon Water/Berney Marshes, the Wash, and Morecambe Bay.
		Lapwing feeding in wet meadow, Elmley Marsh RSPB reserve - Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com, Ref: 9001998-00182-002)
	www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/l/lapwing/index.asp (293 words)

	Tne Retired Ecologist: A Parliament of Owls
		On the 13th of the month a Northern Lapwing was seen near Thurmont.
		However, the day wasn't a total loss; the first meadowlarks of the year were singing in the corner of the field, and better yet, several dozen horned larks were scurrying about among the emerging winter wheat.
		It would have been nice to see the lapwing too, but since I didn't see it, at least I can be glad there was not more than one of them.
	www.emmitsburg.net /nfs/articles/re/2005/owls.htm (1181 words)

	Birds of Nova Scotia - Northern Lapwing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The next one was seen at Upper Prospect, Halifax County, where it was shot by a local hunter on 12 December 1905 and later acquired by the Nova Scotia Museum.
		In all, 32 Northern Lapwings were reported during the 1966 flight as having been seen in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Newfoundland, and at St. Pierre and Miquelon (Bagg 1967).
		Remarks One of the birds of the 1927 invasion, killed at Bonavista, Newfoundland, on 27 December, was wearing a band placed on its leg as a nestling at Ullswater, Cumberland, England, in May 1926.
	museum.gov.ns.ca /mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0119.htm (318 words)

	BirdForum - Some kind of Lapwing?
		I have just checked on the Bird Database and there is a Southern Lapwing but its plumage appears to be a greyish colour where as my brothers appears to be a greenish colour but every thing else, legs bill, eye, are the same.
		Most northernly record of the Southern Lapwing is from Belize (see recent discussion on NEOORN), and in general it is very rare in Central America.
		Definitely a Southern Lapwing but there is no doubt in my mind that this is either in a bird collection or just escaped from one.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=30252 (845 words)

	Birding Community E-Bulletin
		Northern Lapwings have occurred episodically in North America, mostly in Atlantic Canada and the northeastern US, since their first appearance on Long Island, New York in 1883.
		The Maryland Northern Lapwing stayed around until the afternoon of 6 March, and it may have been seen again as late as 12 March.
		Some local residents were very proud of their rare avian visitor and even joined with clusters of visiting birders to admire the Northern Lapwing.
	www.refugenet.org /birding/aprSBC05.html (3144 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Bird-Watchers' Hopes Aflutter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The retired ophthalmologist from St. Petersburg, Fla., joined fellow birders from South Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and the Washington region in the muck of a Frederick County cornfield yesterday, hoping for a glimpse of the Northern Lapwing.
		It may have gotten lost on its way south from its Northern European home or been blown off course by high winds, but either way, its appearance, news of which spread through the Internet, provides dedicated birders such as Swarr with one of the biggest thrills of their sport.
		It is about as large as a crow and has a fl and white face, a majestic fl crest and near-iridescent wings of green, fl and bronze.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30772-2005Feb16?language=printer (683 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Pressure on Europe's bird species
		Northern lapwing, corn bunting and house sparrows were among the species at risk, Birdlife International said.
		Species it said were facing extinction included the sociable lapwing, a wader which breeds only in south-west Russia and Kazakhstan, the Mediterranean shearwater, a seabird from the Balearic Islands, and the Azores bullfinch that lives only on one small island in the Atlantic.
		However, the report also found some bird species, including Audouin's gull, the Eurasian griffon and the white-tailed eagle, had recently shown population recovery because of better protection.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3991279.stm (476 words)

	Towhee.net - A Yank Birds in Europe: September in Denmark
		Best area I visited was the sand dunes and wind swept hillocks of northern Denmark.
		As one writer said of the sky in Mongolia, "The Milky Way is not the whitish haze seen in Western skies, but like a phosphorescent shower of myriad spots of light."
		Grenen is the furthest northern point of the Danish mainland.
	www.towhee.net /europe/denmark.html (258 words)

	eNature: FieldGuides: Species Detail
		Nesting 4 pale brown eggs blotched with fl, in grass-lined scrape on ground in pasture or wet meadow.
		Winters from British Isles west across Europe to Japan, south to northern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Formosa.
		Presumably lapwings are wind-assisted to eastern Canada and the northeastern United States during such cyclonic episodes.
	www.enature.com /fieldguide/showSpeciesGS.asp?sort=1&curGroupID=99&display=1&area=99&searchText=lapwing&curPageNum=1&recnum=BD0707 (285 words)

	Boston.com / News / Science / Rare bird sends scores to Maryland farm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sightings of a northern lapwing, a bird previously unrecorded in Maryland, have birders flocking to a Frederick County farm in hopes of getting a glimpse.
		CREAGERSTOWN, Md. --Sightings of a northern lapwing, a bird previously unrecorded in Maryland, have birders flocking to a Frederick County farm in hopes of getting a glimpse.
		There have been 22 documented sightings of the northern lapwing in the United States, but none in Maryland until Saturday afternoon, when Lynn Nelson of Frederick spotted it on Jeff and Denise Bryant's horse-breeding farm about 75 miles northwest of Baltimore.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2005/02/17/rare_bird_sends_scores_to_maryland_farm?mode=PF (345 words)

	Maine Audubon Bird Alert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An unconfirmed NORTHERN LAPWING was reported in Stratton on Friday, December 11.
		A NORTHERN SHRIKE killed a NORTHERN CARDINAL at a feeder in Cumberland.
		NORTHERN SHRIKES were seen in Presque Isle, Caribou and Washburn.
	www.curtislibrary.com /birds/me991214.htm (551 words)

	ANS - Mar 8th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The NORTHERN LAPWING has returned to its previous locations on Graceham Road and Blacks Mills Road near Creagerstown, Frederick Co, MD with reports from March 2 through noon on March 6.
		On March 5, a NORTHERN SHRIKE was obligingly perched in a small sapling along Rte 13 on the northwest corner of Fisherman’s Island, Cape Charles, VA. The sapling was about 25 feet west of the southbound lanes.
		The NORTHERN SHRIKE previously spotted at Pickering Creek, Talbot Co, MD posed for a photograph on March 7.
	www.audubonnaturalist.org /cgi-bin/mesh/special_interests/birding/voice_of_the_naturalist/archives/mar_8th (1049 words)

	What do lapwings need? - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		Lapwings feed mainly on earthworms, leatherjackets,insects and their larvae.
		Cattle on blanket bog, Pettigo, Northern Ireland - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 5640000_00171_009)
		Lapwing in rushy pasture, Northumberland - Andy Hay (rspb-images.com, Ref: 2000_1777_009)
	www.rspb.org.uk /countryside/farming/advice/birdsonfarms/lapwing/need.asp (159 words)

	Ventures Birding & Natural History Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Among the breeding birds here are Black-tailed Godwit, Lapwing, Redshank, and the extravagant Ruff.
		This reclaimed area covers 720 acres where Common Snipe, Northern Lapwing and Common Redhank breed.
		Northern Fulmars are sometimes easy to see from these cliff tops.
	www.birdventures.com /Trips/GB05.htm (1329 words)

	Kultasointu
		The warning calls of the Northern Lapwing reveal the presence of its young nearby.
		A Northern Wheatear male singing its scratchy song perched on some ruins on the edge of a dry meadow.
		The Whinchat heard in this sample was perched in the bushes beside a meadow, singing in the pale northern night.
	kotisivu.dnainternet.net /hallilau/lsoi6e.htm (1443 words)

	Channel Islands - BirdForum Location Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are four main islands, together totalling less than 200 sq km with a range of habitats including sandy beaches and rocky cliffs with much farmland and hedgerows in the interior as well as small areas of heath and grassland, sand-dunes and freshwater wetlands.
		Important numbers of Northern Gannet breed in the Channel Islands in addition to Northern Fulmar, Manx Shearwater and European Storm-petrel.
		Northern Lapwing and Golden Plover can be seen on farmland in winter and Turnstone and Purple Sandpiper on rocky shores.
	www.birdforum.net /thedirectory/showproduct.php?product=128&sort=7&cat=39&page=1 (865 words)

	surfbirds.com - January 2001 N. America Round-Up
		A drake SMEW in Missouri, a NORTHERN LAPWING and FIELDFARE in NF, REDWING and FIELDFARES in New Brunswick, a PLAIN-CAPPED STARTHROAT at Madera Cyn AZ, a BRAMBLING in North Vancouver, BLUE BUNTINGS in Texas, a YELLOW-FACED GRASSQUIT in Florida.
		A rather large-billed Sandplover at Stinson Beach in northern California at the end of the month has birders scratching their heads and wondering if it is a GREATER SANDPLOVER and a first for North America.
		A NORTHERN HAWK OWL was discovered in Ottawa and another NORTHERN HAWK OWL was being seen in Vilas County, Wisconsin and yet another was being seen daily at the Whitefield Airport, NH.
	www.surfbirds.com /Rarities/usjan01.html (1980 words)

	Field-birding.com: Florida
		Also of interest were Northen Lapwing, Common Myna and whatever else might turn up.
		I saw my life birds there before 8:00 am Wed 1/7 and was on the way to the Northern Lapwing location before 8:30.
		Alas the Lapwing was not present that afternoon (Wednesday) and, although there were a great many species present, including Greater Yellow-legs, Loggerhead Shrike, Cattle Egret, Crested Caracara, Osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, and Palm Warbler, the missing lapwing was a disappointment.
	users.easystreet.com /~timurray/Field-Birding/Florida.htm (1295 words)

	ANS - Feb 22nd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The NORTHERN LAPWING* discovered Feb 12 in Frederick Co, MD (west of Creagerstown, DeLorme 72, C3), has also been the object of extensive searching.
		The Lapwing was last seen late in the afternoon of Feb 16 on the north side of Blacks Mill Rd, west of an older farm house.
		A NORTHERN SHRIKE was identified at Pickering Creek Feb 21.
	www.audubonnaturalist.org /cgi-bin/mesh/special_interests/birding/voice_of_the_naturalist/archives/feb_22nd (1286 words)

	Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology - Researchers & Staff
		Hafsmo, J. E., Byrkjedal, I., Grønstøl, G. and Lislevand, T. Simultaneous tetragyny in Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus.
		Grønstøl, G. B., Byrkjedal, I., Hafsmo, J. and Lislevand, T. Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus copulating with a grass turf.
		Grønstøl, G. Aerobatic components in the song-flight display of male lapwings as cues in female choice.
	www.oeaw.ac.at /klivv/en/persons/gronstol_pub.html (299 words)

	Mark McConaughy Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A NORTHERN LAPWING has been observed by many Maryland birders just north of Creagerstown from February 13 through the morning of February 15 (MDOsprey archives).
		NOTE: the owner of the property asks that people DO NOT park off the gravel edge of the road in the grassy area since she mows it and tire ruts makes it difficult for her to mow that section of her property.
		A NORTHERN SHRIKE was found just north of the town of Crosby in an area of swampy dogwood on February 13 (JF).
	groups.msn.com /MarkMcConaughyHomePage/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=255&LastModified=4675510429521946197 (1156 words)

	Winter birding in East Anglia ITINERARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This wetland holds a multitude of wildfowl, including Northern Shoveler, Northern Shelduck, Tufted Duck, Green-winged Teal (Eurasian race), Pochard, Northern Pintail and Gadwall.
		Little Grebe, Northern Lapwing can be seen, and Mute Swan are abundant.
		The largest concentration of Whooper Swans in the UK congregate in front of the hides, over 600 have been counted on previous trips, together with hundreds of Siberian Tundra Swans.
	www.birdtreks.com /itin/ukeawin01.html (977 words)

	Sightings 2005 Vogelplas Starrevaart en Vlietland
		December 20 - Common Shelduck 35, Eurasian Wigeon 2350, Northern Shoveler 350, Goosander 1 female, Common Buzzard 1 (feeding on dead goose on mud flat), Peregrine Falcon 1 (hunting at 1:00 PM), Dunlin 24, Ruff 11, Eurasian Curlew 225.
		Leidschendammerhout: Common Teal 16, Northern Pintail 3, Meadow Pipit 40, Goldcrest 4, Eurasian Siskin 6.
		February 20 - Black-necked Grebe 1, Eurasian Wigeon 3500, Northern Pintail 13 male 11 female, Northern Shoveler 166, Common Goldeneye 3 male 5 female, Smew 2 male 1 female, Goosander 1 male 1 female, Northern Lapwing 700, Dunlin 3, Black-tailed Godwit 82, Eurasian Curlew 280, Spotted Redshank 21.
	www.xs4all.nl /~sjaak/vwgvl/en/sightings/2005.html (13008 words)

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