| Common Name: | Sandpiper, Least | | Scientific Name: | Clalidris minutilla | | Family: | Scolopacidae (Sandpipers) | | Area: | Ona Beach State Park, Oregon | | Date: | September 1, 2013 | 
Least Sandpipers are very small birds of six inches or less. They are the smallest of the Sandpipers, and the only small sandpiper with yellow legs. Western Sandpipers are similar, but have black legs. They are common migrants in the Spring and Fall in inland Oregon, breeding in Alaska, and wintering along the Pacific Coast down through Mexico. | 
Lake Havasu State Park, Arizona - - - January 3, 2013 | 
Alfred Tyson Park - Elkton, Oregon - - - August 21, 2011 | 
Ona Beach State Park, Oregon - - - August 19, 2013 | | Reference: | Birds of the Willamette Valley Region by Nehls, Aversa & Opperman / National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America by Dunn & Alder |
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