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.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Lesser Yellowlegs photos.
Lesser Yellowlegs on a mudflat
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs on a mudflat
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Alarmed Lesser Yellowlegs
Title: Alarmed Lesser Yellowlegs
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs and reflection
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs and reflection
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs in duckweeds and water
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs in duckweeds and water
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs on migration
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs on migration
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Foraging Lesser Yellowlegs
Title: Foraging Lesser Yellowlegs
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs standing still
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs standing still
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs in a shallow pond
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs in a shallow pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Calling Lesser Yellowlegs
Title: Calling Lesser Yellowlegs
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs foraging at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs foraging at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs on fall migration in Utah
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs on fall migration in Utah
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022
Lesser Yellowlegs at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: Lesser Yellowlegs at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/12/2022