Northern Lapwing Gallery

Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, and Eurasian

Northern lapwing, Vanellus vanellus, and Eurasian oystercatcher, Haematopus ostralegus. . Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Plie, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Shorebirds (Charadriiformes), wood engravings, published in 1897

Shorebirds (Charadriiformes), left side: 1) Ruff (Calidris pugnax, or Machetes pugnax); 2) Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio, or Porphyrio veterum); 3) Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola); 4) Eurasian coot (Fulica atra); 5) Corn crake (Crex crex, or Crex pratensis). Right side: 1) Great bustard (Otis tarda, or Otis tetrax); 2) Grey-winged trumpeter (Psophia crepitans); 3) European golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria, or Charadrius pluvialis, top); 4) Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus, or Vanellus cristatus, bottom). Wood engravings, published in 1897

Northern Lapwing, Peewit or Green Plover -Vanellus vanellus-, chick standing on the beach, Apetlon, Lake Neusiedl, Burgenland, Austria, Europe

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