🐦 Go to a wetland in the Boreal summer and you may spot this chatty shorebird — the Lesser Yellowlegs. As the name implies, it’s smaller than its cousin, the Greater Yellowlegs…but that doesn’t make it any less ‘great’. You’ll also know when you get too close! Yellowlegs are famous for perching in trees and giving loud alarm calls whenever people (or anything else) approach their nests. Nearly all Lesser Yellowlegs breed in the Boreal Forest, with some hopeful parents traveling thousands of kil