Senegal Lapwing (Vanellus lugubris)

Other Names (World)
Senegal Lapwing, Senegal Plover, Lesser Black-winged Lapwing, Lesser Black-winged Plover

Family
Charadriidae (Plovers)

Size
26 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Lesson, 1826)

Habitat
Dry, open areas such as lightly wooded savannas, open grassland with bushes and scrub, patches of burnt grass in Accacia spp., woodland and sparsely vegetated short grassland. Also, cultivated land, airfields, pastures and the margins of lakes and rivers.

Range (Guide)

Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], C�te dIvoire, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Vagrant to Gambia, Senegal.

Southern Mali; north of forest zone in Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast; coast from Sierra Leone to south-western Nigeria; Gabon, western Zaire and central-western Angola east to Kenya, and south through Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique to eastern South Africa (Natal); Zanzibar, Latham and Mafia Is.

Population
Estimated population is 25,000 - 70,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Food
Adult and larval insects, and other small invertebrates as well as grass seeds.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (15)...)

Senegal Lapwing (Vanellus lugubris) [XC834626]
by Rory Nefdt from Manyeleti Game Reserve, South Africa (call)

Senegal Lapwing (Vanellus lugubris) [XC677320]
by Derek Solomon from Bakoumba, Lekoko, Haut-Ogooue, Gabon (call)

Nest
A scrape or depression positioned on burnt ground with newly sprouting grass, on bare patches in grassland or on ploughed land.

Subspecies
Has been proposed to form superspecies with Black-winged Lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus), but this is not supported by behavioural or morphological data.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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