Northern Lapwing

Vanellus vanellus

488,044Records since 2000

MayPeak month

127Counties with records

Near ThreatenedIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan47,149

Feb34,909

Mar38,918

Apr52,293

May58,136

Jun39,023

Jul35,302

Aug38,696

Sep36,225

Oct37,918

Nov32,613

Dec32,774

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

#	County	Nation	Records
1	Cambridgeshire	England	37,309
2	Norfolk	England	26,379
3	Suffolk	England	22,737
4	Kent	England	17,174
5	Lincolnshire	England	13,390
6	Essex	England	10,953
7	Rutland	England	10,501
8	North Yorkshire	England	9,558
9	East Riding of Yorkshire	England	9,192
10	Nottinghamshire	England	7,377
11	Gloucestershire	England	7,143
12	Oxfordshire	England	7,119
13	Shetland Islands	—	7,047
14	Leeds	England	6,703
15	Somerset	England	6,250

429,049 England48,025 Scotland8,787 Wales2,024 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

Records since 2000: 488,044
Peak month: May
Counties with records: 127
IUCN Red List: Near Threatened
Scientific name: Vanellus vanellus
Group: Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000: 269,790
Most recorded in: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Kent, Lincolnshire, Essex, Rutland, North Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire +96
Conservation designations: Convention on Migratory Species, Birds Directive, Birds of Conservation Concern, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species, Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Vanellus
Name with authority: Vanellus vanellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described: 1758
Contributing datasets: 60