Lapwing sounds
Lapwings deliver single clean whistles, jerky peewit calls and rolling songs, some close and resonant while others sit distant over meadows or fields. The set also holds close relatives from Africa, Australia, India and South America that share the same alarm and display vocabulary. Lengths run from five-second snapshots to a full minute of continuous flight and territory sound.
40 sounds
The jerky long whistle of a lapwing
Lapwing lapwing vanellus vanellus
Lapwing bird making sounds
Calm quiet whistle of a lapwing
Resonant pee-wit over damp meadow
Pair raising alarm over chicks
Crested relative of the African savannah
Distant lapwing in the expanse of the meadow
Pair on a Finnish spring meadow
Male tumbling flight at the lek
Lapwing voice — morning roll call
Double call over the field
Clean single call of a wetland bird
Blacksmith lapwing of South African savannas
Red-wattled kin in a Thai forest
Yellow-wattled lapwing of Indian wastelands
Loud red-wattled lapwing alarm call
African wattled relative
Australian relative raising alarm
Clean field recording of a solo voice
Melodic song of a lapwing in tall grass
Birds circling over a ploughing tractor
Polish czajka — same voice on different label
Night flight over Dutch fields
Beautiful morning aria of a lapwing
Noisy territory defence by pair
Alarm cry of a lapwing on the Desna riverbank
Sharp adult danger signal
Persistent call over a damp nesting site
Multilingual label — same signal
Sound portrait of an alarmed bird
Demonstrative flight with a cry
Song of a displaying lapwing
Soaring figure with pulsing wingbeats
Mating call of a lapwing by a pine edge
Mating pirouette over a spring field
Short peewit over a spring field
Decoy imitation — acoustic whistle
Lapwing voice — clear singing
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