This small, remarkably delicate long-legged wader can be found in migration across most of Oregon.

It is speckled gray and white with some variation by season and is typically noticed mincing about in shallow pools and in the water adjacent to mudflats or on seasonally flooded fields, as well as in small isolated ponds.

It is an uncommon to common migrant, most birds in fall. In the eastern one-third of Oregon, it usually outnumbers Greater yellowlegs in fall.

Hear the call of the Lesser yellowlegs

Photo by Dave Budeau, ODFW