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What is a dowitcher?

What is a dowitcher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.
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On a brief stroll we saw a ring-necked duck with yellow and black ducklings, a dowitcher and a kingfisher among others.
The range of the dowitcher is limited to the eastern part of North America.
Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
The female is about the size of a dowitcher, and the male is similar in size to a Greater Yellowlegs.
Now that the dowitcher has been definitely shown to breed in Alberta, these records look authentic.
Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader.

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