Common Redshank vs Lesser Yellowlegs

Common Redshank

Tringa totanus

Medium129 gWetland

Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above and whitish below. They have red legs and a black-tipped red bill, and show white up the back and on the wings in flight. The spotted redshank (T. erythropus), which breeds in the Arctic, has a longer bill and legs; it is almost entirely black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter.

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Recorded by Grégoire Chauvot · Kvaløyvågen, Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway · CC0

Photo: Stephan Sprinz · CC BY 4.0

Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

Medium78 gWetland

The lesser yellowlegs is a medium-large shorebird, 23–25 cm (9.1–9.8 in) in overall length and with a wingspan of 59–64 cm (23–25 in) and a weight of 67–94 g (2.4–3.3 oz). The sexes are similar both in plumage and in overall size. In breeding plumage, the upperparts are mottled with gray-brown, black and white. The underparts are white with irregular brown streaking on the breast and neck. In non-breeding plumage, the upperparts are more uniform gray-brown. The legs are yellow.

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Recorded by Doug Hynes · Call · Landing Lake, Churchill, MB, Canada · CC BY-SA 4.0

Photo: National Park Service, Alaska Region · Public domain

Photos and recordings are credited to their authors under the licence shown. Full profiles: Common Redshank and Lesser Yellowlegs.