Southern lapwing

Southern lapwing
both V. c. lampronotus
The Pantanal, Brazil
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Charadriidae
Genus: Vanellus
Species:
V. chilensis
Binomial name
Vanellus chilensis
(Molina, 1782)
Subspecies

3-4 (see text)

Synonyms

Parra chilensis Molina, 1782
Belonopterus chilensis (Molina, 1782)
Vanellus grisescens Grant, 1912[2]
Dorypaltus prosphatus Brodkorb, 1959
and see text

The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), commonly called quero-quero in Brazil, or tero in Argentina and Uruguay, tero-tero in Paraguay, and queltehue in Chile is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except in densely forested regions (e.g. most of the Amazon), the higher parts of the Andes, and the arid coast of a large part of western South America. This bird is particularly common in the basin of the Río de la Plata. It has also been spreading through Central America in recent years. It reached Trinidad in 1961, Tobago in 1974, and has rapidly increased on both islands, sporadically making its way North to Barbados where one pair mated, nested, and produced chicks in 2007. There have been sightings reported in North America with a verified sighting of a bird in Texas posted on Birda on the 17th April 2024.[3]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Vanellus chilensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22694075A163620949. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22694075A163620949.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mlikovsky2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Terrilyn Alaniz (2024-04-17). "Sighting". Birda. Retrieved 2024-04-18.