dowitcher
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dowitcher
1835–45, perhaps < N Iroquoian; compare Mohawk tawístawis snipe
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This species of the dowitcher is a western bird, breeding well to the north and migrating south to Mexico.
From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Harry Thom Payne
Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
New York: Quail, woodcock, upland plover, golden plover, black-bellied plover, willet, dowitcher, red-breasted sandpiper, long-billed curlew, wood-duck, purple martin, redheaded woodpecker, mourning dove; gray squirrel, otter.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Adults and larvae of these flies have been found in the stomachs of the dowitcher, the pectoral sandpiper, the hudsonian godwit, and the killdeer.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
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