Mangoverde :: World Bird Guide :: Plovers and Lapwings :: Spur-winged Plover

Spur-winged Plover Vanellus spinosus

Described by: Linnaeus (1758)
Alternate common name(s): Spur-winged Lapwing
Old scientific name(s): Hoplopterus spinosus

Photographs

Shizzafon, Israel - Mar 19, 2002 © Joseph W. Hammond  Ma’agan Mikhael, Israel - Mar, 2001 © Alain Fossé  Ma’agan Mikhael, Israel - Mar, 2001 © Alain Fossé  Ma’agan Mikhael, Israel - Mar, 2001 © Alain Fossé  Ma’agan Mikhael, Israel - Mar, 2001 © Alain Fossé 
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Range

E. Mediterranean region. N. tropical Africa;
Fragmented n. population;
Summer visitor to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East.
Resident in Senegambia, s. Mauritania, s. Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Vissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, s. Niger, Nigeria, ne. Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Sudan, ne. Egypt s. in the Nile River Valley, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and s. Arabia, ne. and ce. Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, n. and e. Tanzania.

Videos

No videos are available for this species

Sounds

Location unknown - Date unknown Source: ETI BioInformatics

References

Clements, James F. Birds of the World: A Checklist. Vista, CA: Ibis Publishing Company, 2000.

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