Northern lapwing
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The northern lapwing, also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia.
Northern Lapwing Vanellus vanellus
female displaying
Egg – MHNT
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Plover eggs
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Plover eggs were a form of eggs as food, and a seasonal delicacy of western Europe. Gathered from wild green-plover nests, a practice called plover egging, these eggs were perceived to be particularly
Northern lapwing
…Plover's eggs" were an expensive delicacy in Victorian Europe, mentioned in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, which is set in 1920s - 1940s British aristocratic…
Northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) mating pair and nest, 18th or 19th century illustration from the Netherlands