Description: Long, bright yellow legs and a long bill with a slight upward curve. The back is checkered grey, black and white and it has a lighter belly and breast. Whitish rump and tail are visible in flight.

Range: Alaska and Canada. It overwinters in the United States and down to Tierra del Fuego.

Habitat: Found in the shallows of lakes, ponds, wet fields and in tidal mud flats.

General: Usually found singly or in small groups. It feeds on insects crustaceans, molluscs and worms.

Bovey, Robin, Campbell, Wayne, and Gates, Brian. 1989. Birds of Victoria and Vicinity. Lone Pine Publishing. Edmonton, Alberta.

Peterson, Roger Tory. 1990. Peterson Field Guides: Western Birds. Houghton Mifflin Company. New York, New York.

Udvardy, Miklos D. F. 1994. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region. Chanticlear Press, Inc. New York, New York.

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