Definitionn. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
Last update: August 14, 2015
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Conspicuous as the strongly contrasted colours of its plumage and its very] peculiar flight make it, it is remarkable that it maintains its ground when so many of its allies have been almost exterminated, for the lapwing is the object perhaps of greater persecution than any other European bird that is not a plunderer. [Please select]
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Lapwing you are. [Please select]
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It is not the story of the Lapwing who found the Water; or the Hoopoe who shaded Suleimanbin-Daoud from the heat. [Please select]
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It is as nervous about the site of its nest as a lapwing is. [Please select]
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Other species have their neutral ground, but the environment seldom affords such facilities for observation as does that of the Lapwing. [Please select]
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The hostility that the Lapwing displays towards the Snipe calls for special remark. [Please select]
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Moreover, the lapwing was doomed for ever and ever to fly from tussock to tussock, uttering the plaintive cry of 'Tyvit.' [Please select]
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It has the distinction of a slender curling Lapwing-like crest, composed of a few narrow, long, black feathers. [Please select]
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Last time he wrote it was on Craig-Ellachie paper: this time, like the wanton lapwing, he had got himself another crest. [Please select]
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[Page 127] 5 34 =262* Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrike=, Leatherhead (e), Cherry-Hawk (e), Lapwing (e), Summer (Blue) Bird, Blue (Gray) Jay (e), Blue (Mountain) Pigeon (e), Australian Shrike (N.) [Please select]
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I have described battles in which the opponents were only distantly related; for instance, the Moor-Hen will attack almost any bird--Partridge, Lapwing, or Starling--that approaches its territory even temporarily. [Please select]
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