Lesser Yellowlegs Images

Lesser Yellowlegs Images, Facts and Information:

Tringa flavipes

  • Lesser Yellowlegs have gray and black mottled upperparts, white underparts with streaked upper breasts and sides, their heads, breasts and necks are streaked black. Their bills are straight and dark gray, legs are long and bright yellow.
  • Lesser Yellowlegs are migratory. They breed in the meadows and open woodlands of boreal Canada. Lesser Yellowlegs spend winters on coasts from Southern California and Virginia southward and along the Gulf Coast.
  • Lesser Yellowlegs eat aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates including flies and beetles, small fish and seeds.
  • Lesser Yellowlegs lay 3 to 4 eggs which hatch in 22 to 23 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of yellowlegs is called an “incontinence”.
  • Lesser Yellowlegs can live to be more than four years old.

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