Yellowlegs vs. Sandpiper — What's the Difference?

Either of two shorebirds (Tringa melanoleuca or T. flavipes) found throughout the Americas and having long yellow legs and a narrow bill.

Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe.

Plural of yellowleg

Any of various small shorebirds of the family Scolopacidae, usually having a long straight sensitive bill used to pick up insects, worms, and soft mollusks in mud and sand.

Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; - called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

Any of various small wading birds of the family Scolopacidae.

Either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs

Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidæ.

A small lamprey eel; the pride.

Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers