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Wildlife
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Greater Yellowlegs
(Tringa melanoleuca) M |
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RANGE: Breeds from southern Alaska, southwestern
Mackenzie, and south-central British Columbia east across the
northern and central portions of the Canadian Provinces to
central and southern Labrador, Newfoundland, and northeastern
Nova Scotia. Nonbreeding birds sometimes summer on the wintering
grounds, especially along the coasts of the United States.
Winters from and southern Nevada to southern Texas, the
Gulf Coast, and coastal South Carolina south to South America.
STATUS: Common.
HABITAT: Found in the Nearctic boreal region to the edge of
subarctic coniferous forest zone, where it inhabits swampy
muskegs or bogs with scattered trees, wet clearings and pools,
or tundra. Perches freely when breeding, often alighting on tops
of trees, bushes, or dead stubs. Outside the breeding season,
frequents shallow fresh, brackish, and salt waters, mudflats,
river bars, tidal marshes and pools, rain pools in fields, and
damp grassy meadows.
SPECIAL HABITAT REQUIREMENTS: Muskeg and tundra. Breeds in the
boreal forest of Canada and Scsouth central Alaska.
NEST: Nests in a depression on the ground, usually near trees,
logs, or stumps, on a dry wooded ridge or on recently burned
ground, and normally near water.
FOOD: Feeds by picking, snatching, skimming, and sweeping, but
not by probing. Favors mudflats and shallow borders of lakes and
streams for feeding sites, where it finds small fishes,
tadpoles, worms, mollusks, snails, crabs, and insects and their
larvae.
REFERENCES: Adamus et al. 2001, Cramp and Simmons 1983, Low and
Mansell 1983, Miller 1999, Palmer 1967, Shunk 2004, Sibley,
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