Bird sounds in Africa were all new to me, and were very different from those I was used to. This bird, however, sounds like a Southern Lapwing.
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English African Wattled Lapwing
Scientific (Vanellus senegallus lateralis)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Charadriidae
Family (English) Plovers
Other name(s) Vanneau du Sénégal, Wattled Lapwing, Senegal Wattled Plover
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions inland Sub-Saharan Africa except (c, sw, and s)
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Central African Republic,Chad,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Ivory Coast,Kenya, Lesotho,Liberia,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mozambique,Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda, Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Sudan,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Uganda, Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
senegallus Senegal s to c Nigeria, e to Eritrea and c Ethiopia, s to ne DR Congo and n Uganda
lateralis s, e DR Congo to w Kenya s, w to Angola, n Namibia and e South Africa
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766)
German Senegalkiebitz
French Vanneau du Sénégal
Chinese 黑喉麦鸡
Japanese トサカゲリ
Russian Сенегальский чибис
Spanish Avefría senegalesa
Portuguese abibe-carunculado
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)