Long-billed Dowitchers probe deeply into mud or sand with an up-and-down motion likened to the needle of a sewing machine. They tend to forage in water less ...
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The long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird with a relatively long bill belonging to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae.
These tubby, long-billed shorebirds plunge their bills deep into wet mud or sand to find invertebrate food.
Plump, medium-sized shorebird with very long bill. Extremely similar to Short-billed Dowitcher, and often flocks with it. Best distinguished by voice.
A medium-sized wader that somewhat recalls Snipe with its fast 'sewing-machine' probing of mud. Long-billed Dowitcher is a rare, but annual, visitor to Britain.
The Long-billed prefers fresh water at all seasons; it is a common migrant through much of North America (but scarce in the northeast).
The Long-billed Dowitcher is very similar in appearance to the Short-billed Dowitcher. Both birds are medium to large shorebirds.
Short-billed Dowitchers have a sort of eyebrow appearance, which is really an arched supercilium, while Long-billeds have a straight supercilium.
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These birds are known for the distinctive sewing machine motion they make while feeding. Long-billed Dowitchers mostly feed in tundra regions.
This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion.
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