dowitchers

I too had long billed dowitchers in large numbers this week as well as green winged teal and one cinnamon teal.

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I added long-billed dowitchers to the list yesterday … and many green winged teal together, estimated the flock around 200.

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But the salt marsh is still a carnival for birds—for Caspian terns, willets, plovers, yellowleg sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers—all picking their way through the feast.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

But the salt marsh is still a carnival for birds—for Caspian terns, willets, plovers, yellowleg sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers—all picking their way through the feast.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

But the salt marsh is still a carnival for birds—for Caspian terns, willets, plovers, yellowleg sandpipers, curlews, dowitchers—all picking their way through the feast.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibis, great blue herons as well as black ducks, mallards and pintails have been recorded there.

North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve 2007

Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew.

Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California 2007

Species sighted include: dunlins, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibises, great blue herons, snowy egrets, Louisiana herons, black ducks mallards and pintails.

North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve 2007

Vast hordes of long-billed dowitchers formerly wintered in Louisiana; now they occur only in infrequent flocks of a half dozen or less.

Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895

Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins.

The Seattle Times 2011