What bird is also called the green plover or peewit
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.
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