lapwings

So farmland birds such as lapwings and skylarks, along with other small birds such as thrushes and finches, fled to the milder areas of the south-west, with many continuing across the sea to France.

Weatherwatch: 'War winter' took it's toll on Britain's birds 2011

This lonely domain is a very agreeable haunt for many sorts of wild fowls, which not only frequent it in the winter, but breed there in the summer: such as lapwings, snipes, wild ducks, and, as I have discovered within these few years, teals.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Gilbert White 1756

This, perhaps, was the most ancient form of Osiris; but they also represented him as a man, and supposed him to assume the shapes of rams and bulls, [*] or even those of water-birds, such as lapwings, herons, and cranes, which disported themselves about the lakes of that district. [

History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881

From below and almost through the middle of these lapwings blasts a denser flock of wigeon with even greater urgency.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

Now rabbits burrow in the flue mounds and lapwings breed in the rough fields.

Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

There is not a single human sound, just the reedy song of larks and the wee-weep of lapwings.

Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

Now rabbits burrow in the flue mounds and lapwings breed in the rough fields.

Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011

It is as if they know themselves that it's in the air – a kind of pre-migration tension – and it will soon well up and drive these wigeon and lapwings north for their breeding grounds.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

And it did: there were two black and white birds, lapwings, displaying right on the edge of the river.

Country diary: Ruthven, Highlands 2011

There is not a single human sound, just the reedy song of larks and the wee-weep of lapwings.

Country diary: Allendale, Northumberland 2011