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Where does the Lesser Yellowlegs live?

Tringa flavipes has 2,176,921 records in 105 countries and territories, from 1836 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Lesser Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs β€” Rhododendrites / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeTringa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 1,532,264
Canada 366,573
Argentina 32,735
Chile 27,604
Mexico 25,462
Puerto Rico 17,118
Colombia 14,732
Peru 13,271
Brazil 13,104
Costa Rica 11,488
Uruguay 8,348
Venezuela 6,301
Cuba 6,263
Netherlands 6,163
Bermuda 5,819
Bonaire 5,194
Ecuador 5,131
Belize 4,704
CuraΓ§ao 4,685
Aruba 4,215
Panama 4,170
Bahamas 4,008
Honduras 3,903
Guadeloupe 3,784
United Kingdom 3,356
Cayman Islands 3,010
Trinidad & Tobago 2,925
US Virgin Islands 2,884
Nicaragua 2,609
Dominican Republic 2,532
Barbados 2,486
Paraguay 2,460
Bolivia 2,238
Portugal 2,087
Guatemala 1,990
Jamaica 1,877
El Salvador 1,864
Spain 1,859
Sweden 1,699
Anguilla 1,574

Showing the top 40 of 105 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.