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tringa melanoleuca

  1. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
  2. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    The bird had been bathing for a while. It then stood up and continued shaking and baking.
  3. Colourful legs

    Colourful legs

    Up on that massive pipe I mentioned before (the one I advised you can ignore to pretend you're out in nature, but obviously I don't always do as I say - and anyway, I do want to show what the area is actually like) was a line-up of birds with variously coloured legs. Here are the most colourful...
  4. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
  5. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

  6. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Winter plumage.
  7. Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs

    Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
  8. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

  9. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
  10. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    The smudgy, relatively unstreaked breast and gray mantle indicate nonbreeding (Definitive Basic) plumage. However, we can see a few new black streaks showing up on the flanks and neck indicating the beginning of a change to breeding (alternate) plumage. This species prefers inhospitable...
  11. greater yellowlegs

    greater yellowlegs

  12. Greater Yellowlegs P1170989.jpg

    Greater Yellowlegs P1170989.jpg

  13. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    What else would I be? At Huntington Beach State Park, SC
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    DSCN1531.JPG

    https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/320080471
  15. Stilts

    Stilts

    This Greater Yellowlegs let me know when too close was too close, lol.
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    Greater Yellowlegs.jpg

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
  17. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs
  18. Greater Yellowlegs.jpg

    Greater Yellowlegs.jpg

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
  19. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

  20. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

  21. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Old Travis B. Bryan Municipal Golf Course. Country club lake at ca. 91 m (ca. 300 ft) elevation. Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Post Oak Savannah Vegetational Area. Shallow lake.
  22. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Sexes similar. Old Travis B. Bryan Municipal Golf Course. Country club lake at ca. 91 m (ca. 300 ft) elevation. Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, USA. Shallow lake. Post Oak Savannah Vegetational Area.
  23. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Sexes similar. South Padre Island, Birding and Nature Center, Cameron County, Texas, USA. The center sits bayside along Southern Laguna Madre. Bayside on a barrier island.
  24. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Sexes similar. South of Victoria Community Center, Victoria, Victoria County, Texas, USA. Drainage canal, urban setting in the Gulf Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area at ca. 29 m (95 ft) elevation.
  25. Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs

    Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) Sexes similar. Adult non-breeding. Photographed in Anauhac National Wildlife Refuge, northwest of High Island abutting East Bay, Chambers County, Texas, USA. Bayside, coastal marshes and prairies.
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