Plovers (Charadriidae)
African Wattled Lapwing (Vanellus senegallus) - HBW 3, p. 414
French: Vanneau du Sénégal
German: Senegalkiebitz
Spanish: Avefría Senegalesa
Taxonomy: Parra senegalla Linnaeus, 1766, Senegal.
Sometimes placed in monospecific genus Afribyx. Western population of race lateralis sometimes considered separate race, solitaneus. Race major not always accepted, as occurs at end of cline in size from W to E. Three subspecies normally recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- senegallus (Linnaeus, 1766) - SW Mauritania, Senegambia and NW Sierra Leone E to Sudan, NE Zaire and N Uganda.
- major (Neumann, 1914) - W & C Ethiopia and Eritrea.
- lateralis A. Smith, 1839 - S Congo and Angola E to S Uganda, and S through W Tanzania, S Zaire, Zambia and Malawi to Zimbabwe, S Mozambique and NE South Africa.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird foraging and then alert and preening Locality Mburo Lake National Park, Uganda (ssp lateralis)
Josep del Hoyo 13 September 2006 4 years ago 46 sec 4.6 -
group off birds Locality Kotu Creek, Kotu, Banjul, The Gambia (ssp senegallus)
Daniêl Jimenez 23 December 2011 19 weeks ago 18 sec 4.5 -
A bird walking on the grass and feeding Locality Kololi, Western Division, The Gambia (ssp senegallus)
Eldert Groenewoud 25 October 2005 4 years ago 16 sec 4.1 -
A bird walking on the ground Locality Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (ssp ianthinogaster)
Peter van Dam 28 August 2006 4 years ago 39 sec 4.1 -
A bird feeding Locality Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (ssp senegallus)
Keith Blomerley 10 August 2002 5 years ago 26 sec 3.9 -
Several birds feeding Locality Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (ssp senegallus)
Josep del Hoyo 29 August 2006 5 years ago 28 sec 3.7
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Portrait
Locality Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
John A Thompson 17 January 2012 16 weeks ago 4.5 -
A bird wading in the mud
Locality Kotu, Banjul, The Gambia
Piotr Jonczyk 16 January 2009 2 years ago 4.5 -
Male searching for food in a muddy place.
Locality Serengeti National Park, Serengeti, Tanzania
Javier Atrio 23 June 2007 15 weeks ago 3.8 -
Bird walking on dirt road in Queen Elizabeth National Park
Locality Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
ddarbela 19 January 2012 16 weeks ago 3.7 -
Avefria senegalesa en campos de cultivo en Mandinaba, Gambia octubre 2008.
Locality Pirang, Western Division, The Gambia
Juan José Bazán Hiraldo 16 October 2008 1 year ago 3.6 -
In a flock
Locality Bahir Dar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
John A Thompson 17 January 2012 16 weeks ago 3.6
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Call. 7:39am. Open area near water. Locality Nylsvley Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa
(ssp lateralis)
Charles Hesse 21 December 2009 2 years ago 2
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