#0920 · 🐦 birds

Red-wattled Lapwing

🇳🇱 Indische Kievit ·Vanellus indicus

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The red-wattled lapwing ( Vanellus indicus ) is an Asian lapwing or large plover, a wader in the family Charadriidae. Like other lapwings they are ground birds that are incapable of perching. Their characteristic loud alarm calls are indicators of human or animal movements and the sounds have been variously rendered as did he do it or pity to do it leading to the colloquial name of did-he-do-it bird. Usually seen in pairs or small groups not far...

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,134iNaturalist observations
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).