Black-headed Lapwing
Vanellus tectus
IUCN: Least Concern
Taxonomy
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- Genus
- Vanellus
- eBird Code
- blhlap1
Subspecies (2)
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Vanellus tectus latifrons
southern Somalia to eastern Kenya and north-central Tanzania
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Vanellus tectus tectus
southwestern Mauritania southward to Guinea-Bissau, eastward to Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Uganda
Data Sources
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.