{"id":42384,"date":"2013-07-15T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T18:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:50:46","slug":"sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/cr-critically-endangered\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociable Lapwing Vanellus gregarius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sociable Lapwing is a wader in the lapwing family of birds. It breeds on open grassland in Russia and Kazakhstan. Three to five eggs are laid in a ground nest. These birds migrate south through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, to key wintering sites in Israel, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan and north-west India. Birds winter occasionally in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Oman.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-353-42384\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3644\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/sociableplover_1461.jpg\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing on winter passage through Kuwait\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing on winter passage through Kuwait\" alt=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/thumbs\/thumbs_sociableplover_1461.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div 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href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/sociableplover_1445.jpg\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing on winter passage through Kuwait\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing on winter passage through Kuwait\" alt=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/thumbs\/thumbs_sociableplover_1445.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3080\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/img_6086.jpg\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)  photographed by Mike Barth\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius)  photographed by Mike Barth\" alt=\"Sociable Lapwing\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/thumbs\/thumbs_img_6086.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Sociable Lapwing<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3079\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/sociable-lapwing-vanellus-gregarius-cr\/img_6077.jpg\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) \" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) \" alt=\"Sociable Lapwing\" 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It breeds on open grassland in Russia and Kazakhstan. Three to five eggs are laid in a ground nest. These birds migrate south through Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey, to key wintering sites in Israel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":68652,"parent":42854,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42384","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42384\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}