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WetlandScrapeMedium · 78 g
What the Lesser Yellowlegs sounds like
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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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When to see the Lesser Yellowlegs
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is August, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Lesser Yellowlegs
The map shades 77 countries with regular records, and 8 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia, Netherlands, Finland, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR China, Morocco, New Zealand.
About the Lesser Yellowlegs
The lesser yellowlegs is a medium-sized shorebird. It breeds in the boreal forest region of North America.
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Easily confused with
WilletTringa semipalmataThe willet is a particularly elegant and heavily built shorebird with a structure similar to that of the common redshank but being larger in size than the greater yellowlegs while resembling a godwit in flight with black primary coverts and primaries contrasting with a broad white band, white secondaries with a white rump and gray tail band.
Common RedshankTringa totanusCommon redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below.
Common GreenshankTringa nebulariaCommon greenshanks are brown in breeding plumage, and grey-brown in winter.
Side by side: Greater Yellowlegs vs Lesser Yellowlegs · Lesser Yellowlegs vs Willet · Common Redshank vs Lesser Yellowlegs · Common Greenshank vs Lesser Yellowlegs
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