Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes (Gmelin)
Status Common transient. It is rather uncommon in spring, generally first appearing after mid-April, with a few reliably identified birds reported earlier (average 20 April, earliest 1 April).
Lesser yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Identification Tips:
Length: 8.75 inches
Medium-sized long-legged shorebird
Fairly long, thin, straight bill
Dark bill rarely has a slightly paler base
Bill length roughly equal to head length ...
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Species Code: TRFL ...
Lesser Yellowlegs
Relatives in same Genus
Willet (T. semipalmata) ...
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
The Greater Yellowlegs breeds in northern USA and Canada but migrates during the northern winter to southern USA, Central America, the West Indies and South America.
Greater Yellowlegs Photos
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Greater Yellowlegs 1 ...
The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a shorebird which winters in parts of the southern United States as well as Central America. It breeds in Canada and Alaska often in tundra areas.
Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes
Spotted Redshank - Tringa erythropus
Solitary Sandpiper - Tringa solitaria
Willet - Catoptrophorus semipalmatus
Wandering Tattler - Heteroscelus incanus
Spotted Sandpiper - Actitis macularia ...
Common Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellow-legs, Lesser Yellowlegs, Summer Yellowlegs, Yellow-legs, Yellowshank, Yellowshanks, Lesser Yellow-Shanks, Lesser Long-legged Tattler, Lesser Tattler, Lesser Tell-Tale, Little Stone Snipe, Little Stone-Bird, ...
Greater Yellowlegs pairs appear to bond shortly after arriving in the boreal wetlands; they defend widely spaced territories from other shorebirds with flight displays, calls, and aggressive chasing.
Diet The lesser yellowlegs forages for food by pecking and grabbing up prey from shallow water. It will also chase prey on land.
Greater Yellowlegs
(Tringa melanoleuca)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
....Similar Species: Greater Yellowlegs
ESSAYS:
Shorebird Feeding; Shorebird Migration and Conservation; Spacing of Wintering Shorebirds; Temperature Regulation and Behavior.
Yellowlegs, Greater Tringa melanoleuca Found: The Americas
It is difficult to differentiate between greater and lesser yellowlegs unless the two species are close by for comparison.
Yellowlegs
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Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)
Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria) ...
Lesser Yellowlegs inhabit shallow coastal and inland wetlands. They often flock with Greater Yellowlegs.
name area season diet/native food plants
Short-billed Dowitcher
NCS ...
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes. Common in spring and fall, uncommon in winter and late summer, and rare in early summer in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, common in spring and fall, rare in winter, uncommon to rare in summer.
Lesser Yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
Wandering TattlerTringa incana
Siberian TattlerTringa brevipes NA- Gray-tailed Tattler ...
Lesser Yellowlegs
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Common Yellowthroat
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Greater Yellowlegs
Red-necked Phalarope
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae ...
Greater Yellowlegs Tringa melanoleuca: Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens, NY 16 Apr
Willet Tringa semipalmata: Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, Newport Beach, CA, 01 Jan ...
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)
Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) ...
Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs compared
There is one easy way to tell the Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) from the Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes): just find them standing next to each other.
Lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
White-faced whistling-duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
Cedar (Cedrela fissilis)
Bush dog (Speothos venaticus)
Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica)
Brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) ...
Leg color is yellow. The bird at top left is a Lesser Yellowlegs.
Note the sharp demarcation between the streaky breast and the white belly.
Pecs are fond of hiding in short grass.
THE YELLOWSHANK TATLER.
[Lesser Yellowlegs.]
TOTANUS FLAVIPES, Lath.
[Tringa flavipes.] ...
Other bird species include Bald eagles, American avocets, osprey, bobwhite quail, snowy egrets, yellowlegs, piping plovers, American white pelicans, sanderlings, peregrine falcons, merlins, and others that may be seen on the refuge.
 See also: Greater Yellowlegs, Sandpiper, Snipe, Curlew, Stilt
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