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Least Concernvia IUCN
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Vanellus tectus
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- Vanellus tectus
- litter size
- 2.4
- egg incubation period
- 26
- taxon common name
- Blackhead Plover
- short name
- V. tectus
- taxon range
- Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
Vanellus tectus – MHNT
The black-headed lapwing or black-headed plover (Vanellus tectus) is a large lapwing, a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae. It is a resident breeder across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia, although it has seasonal movements. It lays two or three eggs on a ground scrape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black-headed Lapwing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.