Northern Lapwing
Vanellus vanellus
- KingdomAnimalia (Animals)
- PhylumChordata (Cordats)
- ClassAves (Aus)
- OrderCharadriiformes (Caradriformes)
- FamilyCharadriidae (Plovers and Lapwings)
- GenusVanellus (Lapwings)
- SpeciesVanellus vanellus (Northern Lapwing)
The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia. Wikipedia →
Closest Relatives at Tatra National Park
Eurasian Dotterel
Charadrius morinellus
Common Redshank
Tringa totanus
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferruginea
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger
Little Gull
Hydrocoloeus minutus
Caspian Gull
Larus cachinnans
Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucos
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo
Eurasian Woodcock
Scolopax rusticola
Green Sandpiper
Tringa ochropus
Ruff
Calidris pugnax
📅 Monthly Probability
Fewer than 5 records of Northern Lapwing at Tatra National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.
☀️ When They're Spotted
Most active during daytime hours (6am–6pm) · across all parks (global)
Global Distribution
Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.
where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is) · parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there