Breeding adult. Short-billed Dowitcher by Bob Gunderson. Sandpipers Silhouette Sandpipers. Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus. ORDER: Charadriiformes ...
The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family ...
Short-billed dowitcher
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The short-billed dowitcher, like its congener the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.
It is an inhabitant of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.... Wikipedia
Mass: 3.7 oz (Adult)
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population decreasing)
Scientific name: Limnodromus griseus
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Phylum: Chordata
Source: Encyclopedia of Life
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Plump, medium-sized shorebird with very long bill. Extremely similar to Long-billed Dowitcher, and often flocks with it. Best distinguished by voice: a ...
The Short-billed Dowitcher is a medium-sized shorebird with a bill twice as long as its head. It has moderately long, pale legs. Juvenile plumage includes a ...
12" (30 cm). A snipe-like, long-billed shorebird with white lower back and rump, black-and-white checkered tail, dark bill, green legs.
Nests in grassy or mossy tundra and wet meadows, in muskeg. The nest is a shallow hollow in mosses or grasses, lined with grasses, leaves, and twigs. Non- ...
A moderately rapid to rapid reduction in the population of Short-billed Dowitcher is estimated to be taking place based on analysis of migration count and ...
The long-billed, medium-sized Short-billed Dowitcher is a common and conspicuous migrant along the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts.
TRAITS. Limnodromus griseus is a medium-sized shorebird (Skagen et al.,1999), with a bill twice as long as its head, moderately long legs that are pale or ...
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The short-billed dowitcher, like its congener the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.