Editing Northern lapwing (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Speciesbox
  |status            = NT
  |status_system     = IUCN3.1
  |status_ref        = <ref name=IUCN>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |year=2017 |title=''Vanellus vanellus'' |amends=2016 |volume=2017 |page=e.T22693949A111044786 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T22693949A111044786.en |access-date=15 January 2018}}</ref>
  |image             = Northern-Lapwing-Vanellus-vanellus.jpg
  |taxon             = Vanellus vanellus
  |authority         = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
  |range_map         = VanellusVanellusIUCN.png
  |range_map_caption = Northern lapwing distribution. Light green: summer visitor. Dark green: resident. Blue: winter visitor.
  |synonyms_ref      = <ref>{{GBIF|id=2480242|taxon=''Vanellus vanellus''|access-date=2022-05-11}}</ref>
  |synonyms          = {{Species list
| Tringa vanellus | Linnaeus, 1758
| Vanellus cristatus | Meyer<ref name=syn1>{{cite web |title=''Vanellus vanellus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Northern Lapwing |work=Species Inventory |publisher=The Natural History Museum |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/uk-species/species/vanellus_vanellus.html |access-date=1 April 2020}}</ref>
| Vanellus vulgaris | Bechstein<ref name=syn1/>}}
}}

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 [[Palearctic|Eurosiberia]].