Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Vanellus duvaucelii
- Commons category
- Vanellus duvaucelii
- taxon common name
- cornchwiglen afon
- litter size
- 4
- egg incubation period
- 23
- endemic to
- Buxa Tiger Reserve
- short name
- V. duvaucelii
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Encyclopedic overview
The river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii) is a lapwing species which breeds from the Indian subcontinent eastwards to Southeast Asia. It range includes much of northern and northeastern India, and extends through Southeast Asia to Vietnam. It appears to be entirely sedentary. Formerly also called spur-winged lapwing, this name is better reserved for one of the "spur-winged plovers" of old, Vanellus spinosus of Africa, whose scientific name it literally translates. The masked lapwing of Australasia was at one time also called "spur-winged plover" (and still is in New Zealand), completing the name confusion.
This species resembles the closely related spur-winged lapwing of Africa, and has sometimes been considered conspecific. The species name commemorates Alfred Duvaucel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “River Lapwing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.