Which bird is also called the peewit or green plover?
Northern lapwing growth of grass needed for egg laying to occur earlier. The bird referred to in English translations of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", book 6, as "lapwing" is probably the northern lapwing. Tereus is turned into an "epops" (6.674); Ovid presumably had the hoopoe in mind, whose crest indicates his royal status and whose long, sharp beak is a symbol of his violent nature. Northern lapwing The northern lapwing ("Vanellus vanellus"), also known as the peewit or pewit, tuit or tew-it, green plover, or (in Britain and Ireland) just lapwing, is a bird in the lapwing family. It is common through temperate Eurasia.
Common ringed plover which the "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds" (AEWA) applies. Common ringed plover The common ringed plover or ringed plover ("Charadrius hiaticula") is a small plover that breeds in Arctic Eurasia. The genus name "Charadrius" is a Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate. It derives from Ancient Greek "kharadrios" a bird found in ravines and river valleys ("kharadra", "ravine"). The specific "hiaticula" is Latin and has a similar meaning to the Greek term, coming from "hiatus", "cleft" and "-cola", "dweller" ("colere", "to dwell"). Adults are in length with a wingspan. They have