---
title: "Kievit"
description: "Vanellus vanellus — Vogels. The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/northern-lapwing
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Kievit

> Vanellus vanellus — Vogels. The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily.

- Scientific name: *Vanellus vanellus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden), `farm` (Boerderij)
- iNaturalist observations: 69144
- Wikidata: [Q25392](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25392)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4857](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4857)

## Names

- en: Northern Lapwing
- de: Kiebitz
- es: Avefría europea
- fr: Vanneau huppé
- nl: Kievit
- pt: Abibe-comum
- pl: Czajka zwyczajna

## Countries with the most observations

RU (21030), GB (9529), DE (5512), FR (3054), NL (2685), IT (2259), ES (1871), AT (1784), DK (1440), TW (1130), PT (1084), FI (1049)

## Summary

The northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tewit, green plover, or (in Ireland and Great Britain) pyewipe or just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing subfamily. It is common through temperate Eurosiberia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_lapwing

## Photo

![Kievit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/northern-lapwing/medium.jpg)

Photo: Nikita Gerasin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162303213

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/northern-lapwing?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).