Bird

Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

Names as given by USGS GAP.

Migratory and winter in Florida, in the USGS range maps. Its habitat models include 11 habitats found here.

Seasons here: Migratory and winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Range: 66 of 67 counties
Habitats: 11

Hand-coloured plate of the Lesser Yellowlegs by John James Audubon, The Birds of America, Havell plate 288 — **Illustration**. John James Audubon. CC0 1.0 (NGA Open Access). The Birds of America, Havell plate 288.

At a glance

Group: Birds
Seasons in Florida: Migratory and winter
Breeding: Nonbreeding
Counties in known range: 66 of 67
Habitat models: Winter

Where it lives

Southeast habitat models (USGS, 2001 land cover). The bird is not in every place a habitat occurs. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models Winter model

Habitats in Florida 11

Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there. Shared habitat, not food.

1 of 11

WinterSouth Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh; Floridian Highlands Freshwater MarshRegional / representative. Shown: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia; representative pond ecosystem, a neighboring state.Georgia pond and emergent wetland, Robert 'Bob' Hynes, 1997. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal dunes and beaches

Open sand of beaches, dunes and the hollows between them.

WinterUnconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune); Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland

Coastal Plain seepage bogs

Open, wet, seepage-fed bogs of the Coastal Plain and Sandhills, often with pitcher plants.

WinterSouthern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog

Coastal tidal marshes (salinity not stated)

Tidal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where the source does not say whether the water is fresh, brackish or salt. A stated salinity files the marsh under freshwater tidal marshes or salt and brackish marshes instead.

Winter

Depression ponds and limesinks

Shallow ponds in Coastal Plain depressions, such as limesinks and the ponds in some Carolina bays, that rise and fall with the seasons.

WinterCentral Florida Herbaceous Pondshore; Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore

Disturbed and introduced wetlands

Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.

Winter

Freshwater tidal marshes

Marshes along tidal rivers where the water is fresh but rises and falls with the tide.

WinterFlorida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh

Pine savannas

Open, fire-kept longleaf pine stands over grasses and wildflowers on wet to moist sandy soil.

WinterEast Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie

Salt and brackish marshes

Coastal marshes flooded by salty or brackish tides.

WinterAtlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh; Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh; Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh

Sounds, bays and tidal flats

Salt and brackish open water of sounds, bays and estuaries, with the mud and sand flats and seagrass beds that tides cover and uncover; the vegetated marsh is salt and brackish marshes.

WinterOpen Water (Brackish/Salt)

Other habitats in its models (19)

Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Florida.

Open Water (Aquaculture) Winter
Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter
Unconsolidated Shore Winter
Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter
Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter
East-Central Texas Plains Riparian Forest Winter
East-Central Texas Plains Floodplain Forest Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Xeric River Dune Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter
Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter
Central Florida Herbaceous Seep Winter
South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter
South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter
East Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest - Herbaceous Modifier Winter
South-Central Interior Large Floodplain - Herbaceous Modifier Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Small Stream and River Forest Winter
West Gulf Coastal Plain Large River Floodplain Forest Winter
Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter