Species profile—Vanellus miles (masked lapwing)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Charadriidae (lapwings, plovers and dotterels) → Vanellus miles (masked lapwing)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Charadriidae (lapwings, plovers and dotterels)
- Scientific name
- Vanellus miles (Boddaert, 1783)
- Common name
- masked lapwing
- WildNet taxon ID
- 27774
- Alternate name(s)
- masked plover
spurwinged plover - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=27774
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
