Tringa flavipes
Order Charadriiformes
Family Scolopacidae
Subfamily Tringinae
Other names: Summer Yellow-legs
The Summer Yellow-legs is a rather common fall migrant off the coast of New York and New England; it is very rare in spring. It resembles its larger relative, the Winter Yellow-legs [Greater Yellowlegs], very closely, both in appearance and habits, but differs slightly in its notes.
Hoffmann – A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York (1904)