#1328 · 🐦 birds

Southern Lapwing

🇳🇱 Chileense Kievit ·Vanellus chilensis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The southern lapwing ( Vanellus chilensis ) is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. g. most of the Amazon), the higher parts of the Andes and the arid coast of a large part of western South America. This bird is particularly common in the basin of the Rio de la Plata. It has also been spreading through Central America in recent years. It...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,225iNaturalist observations
weight 270 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
41,225 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 270 g.
Scientifically named by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782 (244 years ago).