Spur-winged Lapwing
Vanellus spinosus
LCLeast Concern
- Family
- Plovers and Lapwings (Charadriidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The spur-winged lapwing or spur-winged plover (Vanellus spinosus) is a lapwing species, one of a group of largish waders in the family Charadriidae.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Senegambia to Red Sea, northeastern Tanzania, and eastern Mediterranean.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Angola
- Armenia
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Iraq
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- Kenya
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Palestine
- Poland
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Zambia
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Spur-winged lapwing
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
