Bird Photography by Richard King: Shorebirds: Greater Yellowlegs: Greater Yellowlegs

Color photograph of a Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca) whose foraging actions vary from graceful walking and picking invertebrates to actively chasing fish in shallow water. Common in shallow water or mudflat habitat.

Greater Yellowlegs, Kenai River Estuary

Near Soldotna, Alaska

(Tringa melanoleuca)

Image No: 23-006974

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