Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes
Also known as: Yellow Shank
Aves
VULNERABLE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 4-12 yrs
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Flock
- Biome
- Freshwater wetland
- Range
- Americas
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Camouflage
- Status
- Vulnerable
About
The Lesser Yellowlegs is a medium-sized shorebird that breeds in the boreal forest region of North America. It is a migratory bird that travels up to 20,000 miles in the spring and autumn.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Tringa
- Species
- Tringa flavipes