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Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Length: 12-15 in.
Habitat: bogs; marshes, streams, ponds, tidal flats (migration, winter).
With its loud, whistled call (a series of three to five nots), the Greater Yellowlegs is one of the noisiest of the sandpipers. Old-timers called it Tattler or Tell-tale, for its cries signaled the approach of an intruder. during migration this long-legged bird may be seen dashing after minnows in a shallow pool or feeding with other shorebirds on a mud flat. Smaller and with a proportionately shorter, thinner bill, the Lesser Yellowlegs (tringa flavipes) is best identified by the one- or two-syllable call.
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