A small group of Northern Lapwings, Vanellus vanellus, flying in to land against a snowy Scottish landscape.
I always love to hear Lapwings in Spring, when their evocative calls (from which they get a common country name ‘Peewit’) made during their swooping display flight ring out over local fields. The RSPB website has a clear audio clip of their display call.
Sadly, it’s getting harder to find breeding birds doing their display around here nowadays. Their numbers have officially been Red Listed as ‘numbers decreasing’ over all of Britain.
I’m much more likely now to find them in autumn or winter flocks, around the coast or inland, as here.
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