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dowitcher (DOU-ich-er) - n., any of three long-billed and long-legged migratory wading birds of genus Limnodromus, related to snipe and sandpipers.
The two species that breed in North America are the long-billed dowitcher and, below, the short-billed dowitcher:
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A very short bill, yes indeed. The other species is the Asian dowitcher, which breed in Siberia and Manchuria. The name is an Americanism, first recorded in 1841, from an uncertain Northern Iroquoian language -- compare Mohawk tawístawis and Oneida tawístawe.
---L.
The two species that breed in North America are the long-billed dowitcher and, below, the short-billed dowitcher:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
A very short bill, yes indeed. The other species is the Asian dowitcher, which breed in Siberia and Manchuria. The name is an Americanism, first recorded in 1841, from an uncertain Northern Iroquoian language -- compare Mohawk tawístawis and Oneida tawístawe.
---L.
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