Dowitcher

While 20 species occur regularly along the sand flats and mud flats of the estuary, four species, the willet, dowitcher, western sandpiper and marbled godwit, account for a large part of the bird population throughout the year. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This area is important for waders, including the Asian dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus (R), a rare winter migrant. ❋ Unknown (2008)

W.od-duck, bob white, woodcock, golden plover, Hudsonian curlew, knot and dowitcher [are threatened with extinction.] -- (C.W. Nash, Toronto.) ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

Adults and larvae of these flies have been found in the stomachs of the dowitcher, the pectoral sandpiper, the hudsonian godwit, and the killdeer. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)

We did well with ducks, owls and warblers but missed a few anticipated shorebirds such as the white-rumped sandpiper, stilt sandpiper and short-billed dowitcher. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He carves them - the dowitcher, the American oystercatcher, the black-bellied plover. ❋ Unknown (2010)

More than half the 77 species of migratory birds that use the East Asian-Australasian flyway -- including the Eurasian curlew which has 'near-threatened' status, the Asiatic dowitcher and black-tailed godwit -- arrive in September and leave by April. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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(Princeton University Press, $30), you'll find winter ranges for great egret, peregrine falcon, osprey, common moorhen, long-billed dowitcher, and the whimbrel, among other species we see here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also among the possibles are long-billed dowitcher (5) and whimbrel (on which see the near misses below) as well as perhaps some of the smaller peeps carried in flocks of migrating semi-palms, pec and least sandpipers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Notable species of birds also found in this ecoregion are black skimmer (Rhynchops niger), gull-billed tern (Sterna nilotica), shot-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), lesser and greater yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes and T. melanoleuca), black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) and tricolored egret (Egretta tricolor) just to name a few from the list of species named as internationally important for the Suriname coastal area. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The avifauna includes 261 bird species, among them the Siberian crane Grus leucogeranus (EN), swan goose Anser cygnoides (VU), imperial eagle Aquila heliaca (VU), Asian dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus (VU), corncrake Crex crex (VU), white-tailed eagle Haliaeetus albicilla and capercaillie Tetrao urogallus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They are long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus ❋ Unknown (2008)