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yellowlegs

[ UK /jˈɛlə‍ʊlˌɛɡz/ ]
NOUN
  1. either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

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  • A second possibility would be a large shorebird, like a yellowlegs, which are migrating right now. Where do dead birds go? — Part 48B
  • Between the Nauset Marshes, Corn Hill, Pilgrim Beach, and the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary we saw 56 species, 13 of them new for Eric, including semipalmated plovers, long-billed dowitchers, lesser yellowlegs, and a horned lark.
  • In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
  • A second possibility would be a large shorebird, like a yellowlegs, which are migrating right now. Where do dead birds go? — Part 48B
  • It's just the tail end of the edible fungi season and Helen goes foraging with local hotelier Eric Hart looking for ceps, puffballs, winter chanterelles (known as yellowlegs), and blewits with their distinctive scent of Parma violets.
  • Next he let loose with the melodious song of the goldfinch and followed this closely with the ‘whew, whew, whew, ‘of the greater yellowlegs, a migratory wading bird.’
  • We saw willets in breeding plumage, greater yellowlegs, and some ducks the identity of which was uncertain, maybe mottled ducks. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
  • In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
  • This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper.
  • In the mud flats of the Bay of Fundy, you'll see large roosts of shorebirds - plovers, yellowlegs, godwits, curlews, and phalaropes - at high tide.
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