Tringa flavipes
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In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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. The lesser yellowlegs was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it in the genus Scolopax and coined the binomial name Scolopax flavipes. Gmelin based his description on the "yellow shanks" seen in the province of New York in autumn that had been described in 1785 by both the English ornithologist John Latham and the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant. The lesser yellowlegs is now placed in the genus Tringa that was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The name Tringa is the Neo-Latin word given to the green sandpiper by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific epithet flavipes combines the Latin flavus meaning "yellow" with pes meaning "foot". The species is... Wikipedia →
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Cochabamba | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 4 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 6 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 7 | León | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 8 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 9 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Natura Artis Magistra | 🇳🇱 Netherlands | |
| 2 | Montreal Biodome | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lesser Yellowlegs sighting in León on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 96th most-seen of the 124 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, July and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lesser Yellowlegs in León on a given day, against under 5% in May, September and November, the lowest months. June has too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lesser Yellowlegs sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
7th of 60
Of the 60 cities where we can rate Lesser Yellowlegs sightings, León ranks 7th at about 10%. The best odds are in Anchorage (United States, about 20%), São Luís (Brazil, about 20%) and Cochabamba (Bolivia, about 20%).
Same family: Scolopacidae
The closest relatives of the Lesser Yellowlegs that you can see in León (family Scolopacidae, Sandpipers and Allies) are Spotted Sandpiper (about 30%), Least Sandpiper (about 20%) and Long-billed Dowitcher (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lesser Yellowlegs is recorded against all the birds logged in León (9 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
