dowitchern.
/ˈdaʊɪtʃə/ Any of several long-billed waders (genus Limnodromus) of North America, belonging to the family Scolopacidæ and resembling the sandpiper, esp. the red-breasted snipe ( Limnodromus griseus).
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grey snipe1756
red-breasted snipe?a1808
dowitcher1841
brown-back1844
1841 Spirit of Times 9 Jan. 529/3 The mellow attenuated trill of the soaring dowitcher.
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 252 Brown-back. Dowitcher.
1888 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck B.C. 1887: Ramble in Brit. Columbia xvii. 182 The long-billed dowitchers are very much like a large snipe, of a pale cinnamon colour.
1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun xiii. 136 They had been shot..and were Dowitchers, a species of Arctic wildfowl.
1965 New Scientist 21 Oct. 163/3 Sandpiper-like American waders such as..the dowitchers..form a substantial proportion of the incomers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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