dowitcher

IPA: dˈaʊɪtʃɝ

Any of three long-legged and long-billed migratory wading birds in the genus Limnodromus of the family Scolopacidae.

Examples of "dowitcher" in Sentences

Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.
Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
He carves them - the dowitcher, the American oystercatcher, the black-bellied plover.
This area is important for waders, including the Asian dowitcher Limnodromus semipalmatus (R), a rare winter migrant.
W.od-duck, bob white, woodcock, golden plover, Hudsonian curlew, knot and dowitcher [are threatened with extinction.] -- (C.W. Nash, Toronto.)
Adults and larvae of these flies have been found in the stomachs of the dowitcher, the pectoral sandpiper, the hudsonian godwit, and the killdeer.
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.
The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady."
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.
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.