Sandpiper Like

Greater Yellowlegs

Tringa melanoleuca
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Length: 14 in. (36 cm )
This stately shorebird passes the winter in small flocks foraging in shallow fresh, brackish or salt water mudflats. They pick small fish, insects, snails worms and other small animals from the water or surface of the mud. They winter as far south as southern Argentina. On their breeding grounds along coniferous forest ponds, their nests are depression in the moss usually protected by a log or low tree bough.

The four-digit banding code is GRYE.

Male | Robert Shantz(link is external)

Male | Robert Shantz(link is external)



Marsh / swamp

Mudflat
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Bird Sound Type: Buzzing
Sex of Bird: Male
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