Name: Lapwing, Northern
Scientific name: Vanellus vanellus
Type: Lapwings and Plovers
Color: Brown,Green,White
Habitat: Coast,Ocean,Water
Size: 30cm
Conservation status:
Winter Visitor
Description:
Unmistakable with long up-turned crest and greenish upperparts; in flight, broad rounded wings show no wing-bar. In winter upperparts have narrow pale scaling to feathers. Often in large flocks outside breeding season.
