How To Use Yellowlegs In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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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A second possibility would be a large shorebird, like a yellowlegs, which are migrating right now.
Where do dead birds go? — Part 48B
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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.
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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.’
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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
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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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This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper.
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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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Mark Peck said that species nesting away from the Hudson Bay Coast in boreal bogs and fens such as yellowlegs should not be severely impacted because much of the freeze took place near the coast.
A DC Birding Blog
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A description of the Greater Yellowlegs shorebird—Nor does she wear her loneliness like a shroud.
Coastal Disturbances
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I found a lesser yellowlegs in the salt marsh once, had-a busted beak and fishing line tangled around one wing and a leg.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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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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In autumn the mudflats host migrant shorebirds including plovers, yellowlegs, and sandpipers, and warblers are common in woodlands at both ends of the pond.
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Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival: If you can afford that tank of gas, there are some free events and activities included in the festival, which marks the annual spring migration of thousands of dunlins, sanderlings, sandpipers, short-billed dowitchers, greater yellowlegs and more.
The Seattle Times
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Often clouds of black skimmers, yellowlegs and a half-dozen species of sandpipers would wheel over our duck decoys, occasionally alighting right in the middle of them.
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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.
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Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins.
The Seattle Times
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He's almost finished painting his American black duck, which is found in Canada and on the East Coast, and has roughed out his lesser yellowlegs, which is a shorebird.
Carlsbad Current-Argus Most Viewed
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In autumn its mudflats host migrant shorebirds including plovers, yellowlegs, and sandpipers, and warblers are common in woodlands at both ends of the pond.
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The female is about the size of a dowitcher, and the male is similar in size to a Greater Yellowlegs.
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Common species of shorebirds, such as yellowlegs, dowitchers, black-bellied plovers and ‘peep,’ are often joined by pectoral, stilt and solitary sandpipers.
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The band spotted plenty of ducks, ring-billed gulls, several bald eagles, turkeys, greater yellowlegs and mergansers.
Undefined
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Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds.
II. Waferfowl
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Farther down, where freshwater met salt, a dozen little estuaries nourished tall stands of marsh grass and dozens of species of wildfowl, from the elegant Canada geese to widgeons with calls like rubber duck squeeze toys to the long-legged, long-billed lesser yellowlegs.
Fire and Ice
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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.
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Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader.
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Greater yellowlegs, spotted sandpipers, black turnstones, surfbirds, sanderlings, least sandpipers, and dunlins also had their best year in 2008.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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This was also true with the common snipe, lesser yellowlegs, willet, and western sandpiper.
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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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Common species of shorebirds, such as yellowlegs, dowitchers, black-bellied plovers and ‘peep,’ are often joined by pectoral, stilt and solitary sandpipers.
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In November, away from our yards, along our coasts, only yellowlegs linger.
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A yellowlegs flew over the pond calling loudly.
