Spur-winged Lapwing
Hoplopterus spinosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
STATUS
Africa and Middle East. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
Species not admitted nationally (BOU 1971).
NOT PROVEN
0). 1910 Sussex Near Hailsham, killed, October.
(Walpole-Bond, 1938).
[Walpole-Bond, 1938].
History Walpole-Bond (1938 (3): 149) recording the record in square-brackets, says: 'Arnold (1936) mentions one that was killed near Hailsham in October, 1910. It must have been an escaped importation.'