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title: "Chileense kievit"
description: "Vanellus chilensis — Vogels. The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), commonly called quero-quero in Brazil, or tero in Argentina and Uruguay, tero-tero in Paraguay, and queltehue in Chile is a wader in the order Charadriiformes."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/southern-lapwing
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chileense kievit

> Vanellus chilensis — Vogels. The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), commonly called quero-quero in Brazil, or tero in Argentina and Uruguay, tero-tero in Paraguay, and queltehue in Chile is a wader in the order Charadriiformes.

- Scientific name: *Vanellus chilensis*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden), `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren), `farm` (Boerderij)
- iNaturalist observations: 40209
- Wikidata: [Q855348](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q855348)
- iNaturalist taxon: [4867](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/4867)

## Names

- en: Southern Lapwing
- de: Bronzekiebitz
- es: Avefría Tero
- fr: Vanneau téro
- nl: Chileense kievit
- pt: Quero-quero
- pl: Czajka miedziana

## Countries with the most observations

BR (11712), AR (10099), CO (5515), CL (4247), PA (1829), CR (1496), UY (743), EC (560), BO (503), TT (445), VE (223), PY (204)

## Summary

The southern lapwing (Vanellus chilensis), commonly called quero-quero in Brazil, or tero in Argentina and Uruguay, tero-tero in Paraguay, and queltehue in Chile is a wader in the order Charadriiformes. It is a common and widespread resident throughout South America, except in densely forested regions (e.g. most of the Amazon), the higher parts of the Andes, and the arid coast of a large part of western South America. This bird is particularly common in the basin of the Río de la Plata. It has also been spreading through Central America in recent years. It reached Trinidad in 1961, Tobago in 1974, and has rapidly…

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

## Photo

![Chileense kievit](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-lapwing/medium.jpg)

Photo: Paula Romano · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/238063386

## Machine access

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