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Red-wattled Lapwing
Vanellus indicus · Family Charadriidae
Vanellus indicus
Family Charadriidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 971,693
- Countries and territories with records
- 37
About this species
This species has 971,693 occurrence records from 37 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from India (81.2%), Thailand (6.1%), the United Arab Emirates (4.5%) and Sri Lanka (3.6%); together they account for 95.4% of the total. In India, this species accounts for 1.3% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Vanellus indicus combines the genus name Vanellus with the species epithet indicus. The Warbla app catalog lists 22 species of the genus Vanellus; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Vanellus vanellus, Vanellus miles and Vanellus chilensis.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 44 species of the family Charadriidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Charadrius vociferus. Its record count is 1.5 times the family average (660,385). The family Charadriidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.