#0870 · 🐦 birds

Sociable Lapwing

🇳🇱 Steppekievit ·Vanellus gregarius

CRcritically endangered 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Shlomi Levi · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Avinash Bhagat · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © TheNatureWeb.Net · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nirav J Parekh · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Al Jahrah, KW:© Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
6. Altay, RU:© taisia06nagornaa · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Masovian, PL:© Maksymilian Wojtkiewicz · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Altay, RU:© Какошкина Татьяна Васильевна · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Lebyazhinskiy, KZ-PA, KZ:© Anastasiya Osipova · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Makkah, SA:© Nils · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The sociable lapwing or sociable plover ( Vanellus gregarius ) is a critically endangered wader in the lapwing family of birds. The genus name is Medieval Latin for a lapwing and derives from vannus a winnowing fan. The specific gregarius is Latin for "sociable" from grex, gregis , "flock".

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 305iNaturalist observations
weight 252 gadult, up to
threat CRcritically endangered

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).