Lesser yellowlegs: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the lesser yellowlegs lives – recorded in 56 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Tringa flavipes
Group	Waders, gulls, terns & auks
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	56 countries
Continents	Europe, North America, South America
Mass	17.4 g (birth weight); 81 g (adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Scolopacidae

Where does the lesser yellowlegs live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the lesser yellowlegs in 56 countries and territories across Europe, North America and South America. Wikidata gives its range as: Belém, Africa, Brazil, South America. In Belgium it is listed as introduced (GRIIS checklists via GBIF).

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a lesser yellowlegs?

Wikidata records the following for the lesser yellowlegs: mass 17.4 g (birth weight); 81 g (adult weight).

Is the lesser yellowlegs endangered?

The lesser yellowlegs’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the lesser yellowlegs?

The lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a bird in the order Charadriiformes and the family Scolopacidae, genus Tringa. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the lesser yellowlegs

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.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Lesser yellowlegs (revision 1376636355), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q28000 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).