Vanellis

=GENUS GROUP= = = = VANELLUS =

//**Vanellus**// is the genus of waders which provisionally contains all [|lapwings] except [|Red-kneed Dotterel], //Erythrogonys cinctus//. The name "//vanellus//" is Latin for "little fan", //vanellus// being the diminutive of //vannus// (fan). The name is in reference to the sound lapwings' wings make in flight.