dowitcher

It and the very similar Long-billed Dowitcher were considered one species until 1950.

Another name for the dowitcher, a wading bird.

Dowitcher: The only snipe found on open shores.

The most similar species is the Asiatic Dowitcher.

When he says dowitcher, I think dowager.

The boniness of a dignified dowitcher is captured in the smooth modeling of its small skull.

Long-billed dowitcher.

The Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus) is a rare medium-large wader.

On a brief stroll we saw a ring-necked duck with yellow and black ducklings, a dowitcher and a kingfisher among others.

Try to distinguish a long-billed from a short-billed dowitcher, or a greater from a lesser yellowlegs, and you have to start seeking out details.

Like a birder spying a dowitcher, he can instantly scope out a live-aboard, or full-time houseboater (look for the potted plants).

The Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird.

Asian Dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus)

None of these combines the reddish belly and barred flanks of the breeding plumage Long-billed Dowitcher.

Limnodromus scolopaceus (Long-billed Dowitcher)

It closely resembles a small Bar-tailed Godwit, although the dowitcher "sewing machine" feeding action and the yelping call are distinctions from the more widespread bird.

These include water birds such as Swinhoe's egret and the Asian dowitcher and reptiles such as the Burmese python.

Just on this day, he thinks he has caught a difference in the timing of migration in the two species of dowitcher here, based on a visit he made the week before.

"A real Gelston would cost you $25,000," Mr. Reason, who eschews power tools for old-fashioned rasps and knives, said in his sawdust-sprinkled shop the other day as he carved a dowitcher.

LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER Limnodromus scolopaceus.

Some of the popular bird species in the park are the Asian Dowitcher, Nordmann's Greenshank, Spoon-billed Sandpiper, aunders's Gull and Black-faced Spoonbill.

SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER Limnodromus griseus.

Birdwatching is a popular activity in the park: Species include Franklin's gull, tundra swan, black tern, eared grebe, northern pintail, yellowlegs, dowitcher, pectoral sandpiper, American avocet and other sandpipers.

The Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus) like its congener the Long-billed Dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

This is a vital refuelling depot for around 50,000 birds of 47 species (including the endangered Chinese egret Egretta eulophotes and Asiatic dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus) on the east-Asian migratory route to Australia.