For today’s ‘Did you know’, we feature a quick fact about the Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs.

Did You Know..

The Lesser Yellowlegs is a species of shorebird you can expect to see migrating through the prairies right now on its southbound journey. While as a single bird we can refer to both it and the Greater Yellowlegs as simply a ‘yellowlegs’, as a group they are referred to as an “incontinence” of yellowlegs.

This Lesser Yellowlegs was part of an incontinence of yellowlegs