Sandpipers, Snipes

Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

The Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a 78 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. It migrates.

Family

Sandpipers, Snipes

Order

Charadriiformes

Weight

78 g

Habitat

Wetland

Diet

Invertebrates

Migration

Migrant

Countries recorded

64

Recorded in United States, Canada, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Netherlands, BM, BQ, Ecuador, Belize, Curaçao, AW, Panama, Honduras, GP, Bahamas, United Kingdom, KY, Trinidad and Tobago, VI, Nicaragua, Dominican Rep., Barbados, Paraguay, Bolivia, Portugal, Guatemala, Jamaica, El Salvador, Spain, Sweden, AI, MF, Grenada, Guyana, Antigua and Barb., TC, Suriname, GF, Denmark, Norway, Haiti, KN, Belgium, France, MS, Ireland, St. Vin. and Gren., VG, St. Pierre and Miquelon, MQ, Saint Lucia, UM, Australia, Germany, SX.

Where to see it: West End Pond (Anguilla); Etang Guichard (Saint Martin (French part)); Anguilla · Road Salt Pond (Anguilla); St. Barths (Saint Barthélemy); Anguilla · East End Village Pond (Anguilla).

Photo: (c) Paul Roots, some rights reserved (CC BY) via iNaturalist