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What is a lapwing?

What is a lapwing? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae.
  2. The tewit (Vanellus cristatus) (which is a type of lapwing in the first sense).
  3. A silly man.
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Several species of ground-nesting birds including lapwing, redshank and ringed plover have come under threat from hedgehogs.
It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.
Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.

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