Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleuca
NTNear Threatened
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The greater yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) is a large shorebird in the family Scolopacidae. It breeds in central Canada and southern Alaska and winters in southern North America, Central America, the West Indies and South America.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds taiga muskeg from southern Alaska eastward through southern tier of Canadian provinces to eastern Labrador (eastern Canada); winters wetlands of southern USA and throughout Caribbean southward to Tierra del Fuego.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Continents
Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Spain
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sources and further reading
- Wikipedia: Greater yellowlegs
- eBird: sightings, maps and photos
- xeno-canto: sound recordings
- Birds of the World: full species account (subscription)
- BirdLife DataZone: status and threats
- IUCN Red List (threat status)
- AviList global checklist (taxonomy)
Last updated September 29, 2026.
