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Lesser Yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

2,959Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
50Counties with records
VulnerableIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan322
Feb147
Mar151
Apr208
May222
Jun81
Jul304
Aug103
Sep335
Oct770
Nov183
Dec133

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England592
2Norfolk England228
3Cambridgeshire England209
4Suffolk England190
5Cornwall England177
6North Yorkshire England133
7Dorset England129
8Isles of Scilly England127
9Kent England94
10Devon England53
11Essex England47
12Peterborough England39
13East Riding of Yorkshire England35
14Somerset England34
15Rotherham England34
2,750 England133 Scotland49 Wales27 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 50 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,959
Peak month
October
Counties with records
50
IUCN Red List
Vulnerable
Scientific name
Tringa flavipes
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
131
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Tringa
Name with authority
Tringa flavipes (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)
Described
1789
Contributing datasets
6

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28000 · GBIF 2481721