Vanellus vanellus
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia.
The northern lapwing was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Tringa vanellus. The species is now placed with the other lapwings in the genus Vanellus that was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The scientific name Vanellus is Medieval Latin for the northern lapwing and derives from vannus, a winnowing fan. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
The name lapwing has been variously attributed to the "lapping" sound its wings make in flight, to its irregular flight path due to its large wings (the Oxford English Dictionary derives this from an Old English word meaning "to totter"), or from its habit of drawing potential predators away from its nest by trailing a wing as if it were broken. The names peewit, pewit, tuit or tew-it are onomatopoeic and refer to the bird's characteristic... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hortobágy National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 2 | Kiskunság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 3 | Biebrza National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 4 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 5 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Kaziranga National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 8 | Białowieża National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 9 | Cairngorms National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 10 | Camargue | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 11 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 12 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 13 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 14 | Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park | 🇲🇳 Mongolia | |
| 15 | Gauja National Park | 🇱🇻 Latvia | |
| 16 | Manas National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 17 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 18 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 5 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Leeds | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 7 | Rotterdam [The Hague] | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 8 | Saint Petersburg | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 9 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 10 | Amsterdam | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moscow Zoo | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 2 | Prague Zoo | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 3 | Zoo Pilsen | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 4 | Zoo Hluboka | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 5 | Eekholt Wildlife Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Tama Zoological Park | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 7 | Luisenpark | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 8 | Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 9 | Santillana Zoo | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 10 | Rákosův pavilon | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 11 | Velemlokárium | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 12 | akwarium warszawskiego ZOO | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 13 | hipopotamiarnia i akwarium morskie warszawskiego ZOO | 🇵🇱 Poland |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Lapwing sighting in Birmingham on a given day, based on 474 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 35th most-seen of the 119 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and August
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Lapwing in Birmingham on a given day, against about 20% in May–June, October and December, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Northern Lapwing sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 37
Of the 37 cities where we can rate Northern Lapwing sightings, Birmingham ranks 3rd at about 30%. The best odds are in Liverpool (United Kingdom, about 40%) and Helsinki (Finland, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Northern Lapwing is recorded against all the birds logged in Birmingham (474 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
