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- noun Plural form of
dowitcher .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibis, great blue herons as well as black ducks, mallards and pintails have been recorded there.
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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
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Species sighted include: dunlins, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibises, great blue herons, snowy egrets, Louisiana herons, black ducks mallards and pintails.
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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
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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
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