🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the White-tailed Lapwing live?

Vanellus leucurus has 33,829 records in 80 countries and territories, from 1840 to 2026. Most records come from India.

AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesCharadriidaeVanellus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 13,540
United Arab Emirates 5,858
Iran 1,933
Kuwait 1,485
Sweden 1,268
Israel 1,004
United Kingdom 943
Netherlands 930
Oman 631
Armenia 522
Uzbekistan 522
Azerbaijan 385
Egypt 320
Pakistan 294
France 284
Denmark 282
Russia 270
Spain 257
Saudi Arabia 237
Norway 228
Germany 225
Finland 168
Iraq 165
Italy 158
Kazakhstan 157
Türkiye 154
Greece 146
Poland 146
Ukraine 145
Romania 102
Georgia 87
Qatar 76
Austria 63
Bulgaria 62
Portugal 57
Iceland 54
Hungary 50
Belgium 41
Ireland 39
Belarus 37

Showing the top 40 of 80 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.