at the 25 types of the plovers is summarized in the subfamily of the Kiebitze.
Shape It is 23-37 cm big birds with black Handschwingen and white tail-base. For usually, the wings carry a white bond, and the rear tail-part clearly takes off through a black strip of the white basis.
Occurrences Kiebitze - with exception of North America - live in open areas, among them both swamps and wet meadows and fields fields pastures as well as wasteland, Karstgebiete, steppes and semi-deserts of Eurasia's restrained and tropical regions, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and South America. they don't participate tied at Meeresküsten and inner-waters like the actual plovers so.
Kiebitz Beside the Spornkiebitz broods big as single type of the 30-31 cm and 200-250 g heavy Kiebitz (Vanellus vanellus) in Europe.
Spread The brood-area stretches from northwest-Morocco over Europe and Asia Minor as far as to southeast-Siberia and into the Manchuria.
Brood On free surfaces - also far in the inland -, Kiebitze will base its flat ground-nest, with what the female chooses one of the 5 - 6 from the male turned hollows as final location and that hatches existing nests here-done Nistmaterials directly from usually 4 (2-5) eggs on the ground or also on larger quantities. The male Kiebitz less often broods normally as occasionally at all its partner not.
After 26-29 days, the dichtbedunten squabs hatch; they are looked after until the age of 30-42 days of both alto-birds. The male Kiebitz holds station mainly while the female leads the boys mainly and hudert. After some days, the family leaves the nest and visits favorable places with protective vegetation. With danger, the Nestflüchter already duck densely shortly after slipping at the ground. Also after the fully-fledged-development (with approximately 33 days), they still do this occasionally. Young Kiebitze can swim well already very early and can peck already few hours after food after abandonment of the egg.
Food Mainly, Kiebitze carry off, however, insects and its larva, spiders, ringlet-worms and mollusks (snails), pick up also seeds and fruits as well as other plant-parts in more inferior quantities.
Continuance Through the cultivation of the landscape, the Kiebitzbestand in Europe decreased since middle of the 19. Century until in the fifties and sixties of the 20. Century; here and there, certain populations have not adapted themselves to the changed environment-conditions also today yet. Since approximately 1940, one could observe an increasing changeover of the Kiebitze to culture-country as brood-biotope however in many places, this also still today stops. Kiebitze also never spread populated areas across previously for itself through it from them in the last decades.
Hibernation According to brood-area, Kiebitze are stand, line, or migratory birds, who move at most approximately 5000 km wide as far as into the tropics. Mainly, the European birds spend the winter as far as to the Sahara in the Mediterranean-area and in Africa.
Reputations The name "Kiebitz" is onomatopoeic and refers to the most frequent reputations of these birds.
Show-flights If Kiebitze occupy its Nistreviere in the spring after the arrival in the brood-area, they undertake the so typical show-flights with steep increases and nosedives as well as jerky turns. Also during the brood-period, they defend its territory so and attack also bigger enemies, even dogs, without further with nosedives.
Further types The Steppenkiebitz or Herdenkiebitz (Chettusia gregaria) named, 29-32 cm big plovers has very long legs and a mainly tan one until gray plumage. it broods in the dry-landscapes of southeast-Russia as far as after southwest-Siberia and Turkestan.
As also with the 28 cm of big, also leggy Weißschwanzkiebitzen (Vanellochettusia leucura), the typical black-and-white plumage-drawing of the Kiebitze already is recognizable with them from wide during the flight.
Some Kiebitzarten, among them the 33 cm big Lappenkiebitz (Lobivanellus indicus), red or yellow colored bare skin-protuberances carry shining in the head-area.
A quite frequent bird South America (from Colombia to fire-country), who looks like the European Kiebitz in the whole one with its feather-bonnet (Holle) and the plumage-coloring, is the 30-35 cm big Cayenne-Kiebitz (Belonopterus chilensis). it has like also some other types horny spores at the front-crusts of its wings.
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