BirdUp · Species
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes(Gmelin, JF, 1789)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Commonness
- Common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The lesser yellowlegs is a medium-sized shorebird. It breeds in the boreal forest region of North America.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- (mainly) subarctic tundra to forest of north Nearctic: Alaska mainland (except far west, far north) south to central British Columbia and south Alberta, east to James Bay and probably central Quebec (east-central Canada)
- Non-breeding range
- South USA and LA : temperate to tropical coastal and inland Neotropical wetlands: north California, North Carolina, and throughout Caribbean south to Tierra del Fuego; Galápagos
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
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