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Species
Least Concernblack-winged lapwing
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyCharadriidae
De zwartvleugelkievit (Vanellus melanopterus) behoort tot de familie van kieviten en plevieren (Charadriidae).
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Vanellus melanopterus
- Commons category
- Vanellus melanopterus
- litter size
- 3
- egg incubation period
- 27
- taxon common name
- abibe-de-asa-negra
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
The black-winged lapwing. black-winged plover or greater black-winged lapwing (Vanellus melanopterus) is an east African species that is found from the Ethiopian highlands in the north to central Kenya (race V. m. melanopterus), and again at middle to coastal elevations in eastern South Africa (race V. m. minor). It is a habitat specialist of short grass in well-watered temperate grasslands. They may move about locally to find ideal situations, often at night. In their tightly grouped flying flocks they resemble plovers.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black-winged Lapwing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.