Maryland Biodiversity Project - Southern Lapwing (Vanellus chilensis)

Southern Lapwing Vanellus chilensis (Molina, 1782)

Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Class Aves > Order Charadriiformes > Family Charadriidae > Genus Vanellus Southern Lapwing - Vanellus chilensis - https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/17003

Status:

Maryland has one record of this species (#2006-051) that has not been accepted based on concerns over origin. Many believe this record and records from Florida and Michigan represent natural vagrancy from an expanding population.

In March 2024, the American Birding Association voted to accept the species onto the ABA checklist, citing records from Maryland, Michigan, and Florida.

Records:

There is 1 record in the project database.

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A Southern Lapwing in Worcester Co., Maryland (6/17/2006). Alvaro Jaramillo shared the following and summarizes the geographical variation in this species: 'the bird looks to be clearly in the cayennensis group (long legs, long black crest, no dark line on breast, slim shape, dull bill color etc.). I also think that based on some of those features as well as the brownish rather than grayish face, that is cayennensis, not a lampronotus from the south. The form cayennensis is the one in the north of South America, and the one that has expanded recently into Central America as well as Trinidad and Tobago. So it is the subspecies that would be expected as a vagrant in North America, or at least more expected than the other forms.' Photo by Mark Hoffman. (MBP list)