White-tailed Lapwing
The White-tailed Lapwing or White-tailed Plover is a medium-sized, long-legged and fairly long-billed plover species.
Adults are slim erect birds with a brown back and foreneck, paler face and grey breast. Its long yellow legs, pure white tail and distinctive brown, white and black wings make this species unmistakable.
The White-tailed Lapwing is the only plover species likely to be seen in other than very shallow water where it picks insects and other small prey mainly from the surface.
White-tailed Lapwings breed semi-colonially on inland marshes in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. The Iraqi and Iranian breeders are mainly residents but Russian birds migrate south in winter to south Asia, the Middle East and north east Africa.
The White-tailed Lapwing is a very rare vagrant in western Europe, the first record in the UK being found in Warwickshire in July 1975.
There were 11 UK records prior to this bird.
Date: 6th September 2021
Location: RSPB Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire
Adults are slim erect birds with a brown back and foreneck, paler face and grey breast. Its long yellow legs, pure white tail and distinctive brown, white and black wings make this species unmistakable.
The White-tailed Lapwing is the only plover species likely to be seen in other than very shallow water where it picks insects and other small prey mainly from the surface.
White-tailed Lapwings breed semi-colonially on inland marshes in Iraq, Iran and southern Russia. The Iraqi and Iranian breeders are mainly residents but Russian birds migrate south in winter to south Asia, the Middle East and north east Africa.
The White-tailed Lapwing is a very rare vagrant in western Europe, the first record in the UK being found in Warwickshire in July 1975.
There were 11 UK records prior to this bird.
Date: 6th September 2021
Location: RSPB Blacktoft Sands, East Yorkshire
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