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African Wattled Lapwing (1st coastal record)

African Wattled Lapwing (1st coastal record) - Adult

Photographer

» Lionel Sineux

Location

» Assouinde

Country image taken

» Côte d'Ivoire

Date

» February, 2015

Equipment

» Nikon

Bird Species

»Vanellus senegallus - African Wattled Lapwing

Bird Species (French)

»Vanneau du Sénégal

Bird Family

»Charadriidae - Plovers

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» A lone bird sighted at Assouinde marsh, on the coast near the Ghanaian border. While the more southern records for the country have been made near Tiassale (c.130km North from Abidjan), this possibly constitutes the first coastal record for Côte d'Ivoire - 07 February 2015

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