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Le joli plumage irisé du Vanneau huppé en vol - the beautiful iridescent plumage of the Northern Lapwing in flight

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Angelika Körber

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Angelika Körber

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Hans Schmitt

Vanellus vanellus

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Hartmut Glinkemann

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Anne Buck

A northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) protecting its nest from a European herring gull (Larus argentatus), in our neighbourhood another spring.

The lapwings are critically endangered in Norway, and I am really happy that they still nest on our island, since they are gone so many other places.

Today I was counting the ones I could see from the roads and paths close the fields out here, for the local newpaper which will publish an article about them tomorrow.

I saw at least 10 couples nesting, and I guess some more were hiding on the largest fields.

(Vipe og gråmåke, in Norwegian)

Check out a photo of a nest in the same area, in the links below the line!

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Lovely to see so many chicks with the Lapwings this year. Wader numbers are down, probably due to the dry conditions. The rivers and burns are all down to their bones and all the wet flashes are bone dry

Pulborough Brooks, Sussex

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Joachim Kluge

Northern Lapwing in Glen Quaich, Perthshire. There are a lot here on the improved pasture on the valley floor. Lots of chicks about

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Angelika Nijhoff

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Angelika Nijhoff

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Gisbert Hauske

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Gisbert Hauske

Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus)
(c) Joachim Kluge

Bislicher Insel Nature reserve