TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Greater Yellowlegs Feeding Greater Yellowlegs- Tringa melanoleuca Greater Yellowlegs- Tringa melanoleuca, Order Charadriiformes, Family Scolopacidea, Subfamily Scolopacinae. It is said that, because of its mostly inaccessible breeding grounds, the Greater Yellowlegs is "one of the least studies birds on the North American continent." There were literally hundreds of shorebirds feeding in the mudflats on Saturday, Sep 11 in the Shaker Trace Wetlands in the Miami Whitewater Forest area in SW Ohio. (Photo: Sep 11, 2004, Canon EOS 1D Mark II digital camera with 500mm f/4 L IS lens and 2.0X II TC) For More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Greater_Yellowlegs.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact hays@environment-education-press.org

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.