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Still quite a few migrant ducks hanging around our area.

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Lesser Whitethroat (Curruca curruca).

Photo taken as part of 'City Nature Challenge 2025: Oxfordshire' (www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-o...).

Lake Iola

Scott County Indiana

There are more Lesser Flamingos than any of the six species of flamingo in the world. Lesser and Greater Flamingos are old world flamingos. Chilean, James's, Andean and American are considered new world flamingos.

A tringa sandpiper most closely related to the Willet. Lake St. Clair.

Our waterfowl will be heading north soon this is one of the few opportunies I have had to photograph the Lesser Scaup.

So delightful it shouldn't be called "Lesser".

Actinotus minor

A Lesser Yellowlegs pays a visit to one of the remaining tide pools doing an early morning beach walk.

The Lesser Yellowlegs concentrated on its hunting for food!

Redmond, WA

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Lake Elementaita - Kenya

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4-5.6 IS II L USM

@ f/5.6 1/1250 ISO 400

Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) perched on a branch.

Piegża (Curruca curruca) siedząca na gałązce.

Taken RSPB Lodmoor, Weymouth, Dorset.

This is an American wading bird that has ended up on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean but appears quite at home at Lodmoor.

The outskirts of Fernley Nevada where the rails meet. There's not much going on here otherwise. Still, I found this to be a most interesting spot. Lots of land and nothing to do with it. A true slice of the rural Western US.

Fernley Nevada

267) Lesser Shortwing

Lesser Shortwing, Brachypteryx leucophrys, Murai Kerdil Gunung

Small bird that occur from Myanmar and down to Peninsular Malaysia. Found in montane forest such as Fraser Hills, Genting and Cameron Highland.

Exif: f6.3, 1/50, ISO 1000, focal length 800mm, Cik Canon EOS 50D, lens Canon 400mm, TC 2.0, tripod

Lesser Whitethroat - Cleethorpes.

Lesser Yellownape Woodpecker (Picus chlorolophus)

RSPB Lodmoor Dorset

Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) searching for insects while perched on a branch of a blooming tree – head down.

Piegża (Curruca curruca) szukająca owadóœ siedząc na gałęzi kwitnącego drzewa – głową w dół.

There were several pairs of common and lesser Kestrels nesting in the holes of this tower allowing us to have a cracking views of the adults bringing in food

Belmont Slough

The lesser scaup (Aythya affinis) is a small North American diving duck that migrates south as far as Central America in winter. It is colloquially known as the little bluebill or broadbill because of its distinctive blue bill. The origin of the name scaup may stem from the bird's preference for feeding on scalp—the Scottish word for clams, oysters, and mussels; however, some credit it to the female's discordant scaup call as the name's source.[2] It is apparently a very close relative of the Holarctic greater scaup or "bluebill" (A. marila), with which it forms a superspecies.[3][4] The scientific name is derived from Ancient Greek aithuia an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin, affinis "related to", from its resemblance to the greater scaup.[5]

Lesser Celandine flowers, a member of the buttercup family of flowers.

This family of Lesser Whistling Ducks wee captures at Thalangama Lake, Sri Lanka

Schertz, Texas

South Llano River State Park, Junction, Kimble County, Texas

Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) perched on a spruce tree branch.

Piegża (Curruca curruca) siedząca na świerkowej gałęzi.

Lesser Yellowlegs - Tringa flavipes

The lesser yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes) is a medium-sized shorebird. The genus name Tringa is the New Latin name given to the green sandpiper by Aldrovandus in 1599 based on Ancient Greek trungas, a thrush-sized, white-rumped, tail-bobbing wading bird mentioned by Aristotle. The specific flavipes is from Latin flavus, "yellow", and pes, "foot".

This species is similar in appearance to the larger greater yellowlegs, although it is more closely related to the much larger willet; the fine, clear and dense pattern of the neck shown in breeding plumage indicates these species' actual relationships.

A medium-large shorebird, the lesser yellowlegs measures 27 cm (11 in). The legs are yellow. Compared to the greater yellowlegs, the bill is shorter (visually about the same length as the head), slim, straight, and uniformly dark. The breast is streaked and the flanks are finely marked with short bars.

Their breeding habitat is clearings near ponds in the boreal forest region from Alaska to Quebec. They nest on the ground, usually in open dry locations.

They migrate to the Gulf coast of the United States and south to South America.

This species is a regular vagrant to western Europe, and the odd bird has wintered in Great Britain.

These birds forage in shallow water, sometimes using their bill to stir up the water. They mainly eat insects, small fish and crustaceans.

The call of this bird is softer than that of the greater yellowlegs.

North Lake, Golden Gate Park, SF, CA

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Thank you for the 2M views.

Nikon D500, AF-S 500mm f4G ED VR, TC-14E II

This Greater Yellowlegs at Myakka Lake was having a blast splashing in the water.

Myakka River State Park near Sarasota, Florida.

There's nothing lesser about those beautiful colors.

Lodmoor April,2019

Lesser Yellowlegs at Bombay Hook NWR

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Lesser Goldfinch or Spinus psaltria, very small songbird

Deze foto is genomen tijdens een familie fotosessie waarvoor ik was gevraagd door een collega / vriend van mij.

Vóór de foto's genomen werden wandelde ik door de tuin en zag iedere keer deze voor mij onbekende vogels in de bosjes en omgeving.

Nou had ik toch mijn telelens bij me voor het geval dat,en ben met een statief erbij vlakbij de bosjes gaan staan,en hopen dat ze nu weer nét op dat takje zouden gaan zitten,en zo geschiedde.

Niet gepland deze foto,ik kwam voor wat anders dus,maar af en toe geluk hebben is ook wel mooi.

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This photo was taken while i was doing a family photoshoot of a colleague/friend of mine.

Before the photoshoot i was walking through the garden and saw these to me unknown,

birds in the branches.

I had my telelens taken with me,just in case,you know...and my tripod.

Went over to the branches with my gear,and saw that they sat now on then on this particular tree.

I only had to wait for the right moment for them to return over there.

So,that's the story to this photo.Wasn't planned,but having a little luck now and then is always nice.

Taken in San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica. Done without a flash! Not quite like yours, Eric, but not too bad!

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Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)

Always hidden among the vegetation...

Amani Forest Reserve - East Usambara Mountains

Usambara Mountains - Tanzania

Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) perched on an apple tree branch.

Piegża (Curruca curruca) stojąca na gałęzi jabłoni.

Occurs in shallow, weedy wetlands and flooded fields across North America during migration. It's smaller with a shorter bill than the Greater Yellowlegs, but otherwise very similar. It breeds in the meadows and open woodlands of boreal Canada.