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Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipes · Family Scolopacidae
Tringa flavipes
Family Scolopacidae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 2,180,617
- Countries and territories with records
- 105
About this species
This species has 2,180,617 occurrence records from 105 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (70.3%), Canada (16.9%), Argentina (1.5%), Chile (1.3%) and Mexico (1.2%); together they account for 91.1% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 0.14% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Tringa flavipes combines the genus name Tringa with the species epithet flavipes. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Tringa; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Tringa melanoleuca, Tringa totanus and Tringa nebularia.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 89 species of the family Scolopacidae. This species ranks 10th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Actitis macularius. Its record count is 3.1 times the family average (703,816). The family Scolopacidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.