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Lesser Yellowlegs

Lesser Yellowlegs - Juvenile

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Las Galletas, Arona, Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» November, 2012

Equipment

» Pentax K-m with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Tringa flavipes - Lesser Yellowlegs

Bird Species (French)

»Petit Chevalier

Bird Family

»Scolopacidae - Sandpipers, Snipes

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Rarely recorded in the Canaries, but there are scattered observations from five of the islands of the archipelago. This bird was close to three White-rumped Sandpipers, in a clear "influx" of Nearctic waders to the islands of Macaronesia.

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