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Masked Lapwing
Vanellus miles · Family Charadriidae
Vanellus miles
Family Charadriidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Charadriidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 1,472,838
- Countries and territories with records
- 29
About this species
This species has 1,472,838 occurrence records from 29 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (89%) and New Zealand (10.7%); together they account for 99.7% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 1.2% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Vanellus miles combines the genus name Vanellus with the species epithet miles. 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 chilensis and Vanellus indicus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 44 species of the family Charadriidae. This species ranks 6th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Charadrius vociferus. Its record count is 2.2 times the family average (660,385). The family Charadriidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.