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Bare-part colours of males brighten in the breeding season. Different types of display flights lure the female to the defended territory. A female accepting the male and territory will follow the male during his display flight. Mates may be retained for life. Egg-laying is timed to precede the rainy
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Crowned lapwings prefer short, dry grassland which may be overgrazed or burnt, but avoid mountains. In higher-rainfall areas such as parts of Zambia and
Zimbabwe, they occur mainly as dry-season visitors. In dry regions of northern Botswana, however, they are attracted in large numbers when good
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sometimes associate and do not show mutual aggression, even within breeding territories. Different crowned lapwing males do however posture aggressively when nesting territories are established. The loser in an encounter assumes a special posture to signal his defeat.
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subfamily that occurs contiguously from the Red Sea coast of
Somalia to southern and southwestern Africa. It is an adaptable and numerous species, with bold and noisy habits. It is related to the more localized
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The crowned lapwing is easily recognized by its combination of brown and white colours, with most tellingly, a black crown intersected by an annular white halo. Adults are noisy and conspicuous.
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Ornithologie, ou, MĂ©thode
Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés
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The crowned lapwing was described by the French polymath
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The crowned lapwing is one of the species to which the
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675:(in French and Latin). Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche.
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333:for a "lapwing". It is a diminutive of the Latin
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657:(in French). Utrecht. p. 49, Number 800.
730:The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names
293:which was produced under the supervision of
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312:. The crowned lapwing is now placed in the
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321:that was erected by the French zoologist
829:Marchant J., Prater T., Hayman P. 1986.
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634:Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle
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291:Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle
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799:"Vanellus coronatus (Crowned lapwing)"
779:"Vanellus coronatus (Crowned lapwing)"
759:"Vanellus coronatus (Crowned lapwing)"
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275:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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708:. International Ornithologists' Union
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630:"Pluvier, du Cap de Bonne-Esperance"
1200:IUCN Red List least concern species
847:The atlas of southern African birds
837:Birds of Africa south of the Sahara
831:Shorebirds: An identification guide
556:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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422:Although generally outnumbered by
399:Close-up of a bird in Johannesburg
337:meaning "winnowing" or "fan". The
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824:Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa
347:Three subspecies are recognised:
281:from a specimen collected in the
614:Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de
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860:Photos on tanzaniabirds.net
835:Sinclair I., Ryan P. 2003.
706:World Bird List Version 9.2
626:Daubenton, Louis-Jean-Marie
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727:Jobling, James A. (2010).
618:Martinet, François-Nicolas
525:Crowned lapwings in flight
325:in 1760. The generic name
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818:Waders of southern Africa
669:Brisson, Mathurin Jacques
287:François-Nicolas Martinet
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476:Adult defending its nest
344:is Latin for "crowned".
323:Mathurin Jacques Brisson
308:in his catalogue of the
1220:Birds described in 1783
509:Zulu Nyala Game Reserve
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622:Daubenton, Edme-Louis
596:"Le pluvier couronné"
447:black-winged lapwings
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227:Stephanibyx coronatus
220:Hoplopterus coronatus
1210:Birds of East Africa
804:Animal Diversity Web
784:Animal Diversity Web
764:Animal Diversity Web
306:Charadrius coronatus
295:Edme-Louis Daubenton
213:Charadrius coronatus
40:Mikumi National Park
822:Maclean G.L. 1984.
424:blacksmith lapwings
410:Habitat and numbers
310:Planches Enluminées
252:, is a bird of the
49:Conservation status
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1008:vanellus-coronatus
930:Vanellus_coronatus
916:Vanellus coronatus
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864:Crowned lapwing -
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1194:Categories
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532:References
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654:enluminés
441:Behaviour
357:Friedmann
342:coronatus
318:Vanellus
164:Species:
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