Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes
VUVulnerable
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies (Scolopacidae)
- Order
- Charadriiformes
Overview
The lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird. It breeds in the boreal forest region of North America, and winters from the south of North America, to the far south of South America.
Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Range and habitat
Breeds subarctic tundra to forest from Alaska mainland eastward to James Bay and probably central Quebec (east-central Canada); winters southern USA throughout Caribbean southward to Tierra del Fuego.
Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.
Countries
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- Germany
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- New Zealand
- 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: Lesser 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.
