dowitcher

[dou-ich-er]

noun

any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.

Origin of dowitcher

1835–45, Americanism; perhaps < N Iroquoian; compare Mohawk tawístawis snipe

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Historical Examples of dowitcher

Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
Our Vanishing Wild Life
William T. Hornaday
This species of the dowitcher is a western bird, breeding well to the north and migrating south to Mexico.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast
Harry Thom Payne
Though not of the same genus, the closet relative to the Wilson snipe is the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast
Harry Thom Payne
The range of the Dowitcher is limited to the eastern part of North America.
Birds and Nature Vol. 9 No. 2 [February 1901]
Various
It might be confused with the dowitcher, but the flight, notes, and usual haunts of the latter are different.
Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2)
Arthur Cleveland Bent

British Dictionary definitions for dowitcher

dowitcher

noun

either of two snipelike shore birds, Limnodromus griseus or L. scolopaceus, of arctic and subarctic North America: family Scolopacidae (sandpipers, etc), order Charadriiformes

Word Origin for dowitcher

C19: of Iroquoian origin

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