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Lapwing Lodge is well-known as a scout centre, but it's also used by lots of school and community groups.
The
lapwing is instantly recognisable and in fact is the only British wader which sports a crest in all plumages and in both sexes.
Lapwing territory densities could be higher in urban areas (unmeasured, and difficult to measure due to the fine-scale matrix of private property), and so more competition for territories may exist there, encouraging territory fidelity.
Lapwings yodel - that two-tone call is very much a trademark of these wonderfully agile flyers when the courtship bug infects them.
High tide on the Solway can be spectacular with clouds of Dunlin and Knot in the air, chased by Peregrines and the flooded fields can be filled with flocks of Curlew,
Lapwing and Golden Plover."
The species Mr Beg recorded in DHA Phase 8 included the yellow-wattled
lapwings and the grey Francolin teetar.
His
lapwing educational work with schoolchildren, many of whom have very little knowledge of farming and the wider natural environment, is an important element in increasing their knowledge of these subjects.
Parc Slip had up to 19 pairs of breeding
Lapwing in the mid 1990s, but only one pair in spring 2014.
Instead he delved into the history of the doomed ship and later in life became the secretary of the HMS
Lapwing Association.
While some birds, such as the
lapwing and curlew, can be found outside Europe, certain species listed, including the critically endangered Balearic Shearwater, are native to Europe alone.
After fixing the first and bigger leakage, they noticed a red-wattled
lapwing bathing in the puddle of water formed from the second leakage.
Four adults and a child were in a house at
Lapwing Way when a device exploded at 1.30am.