dowitcher

American  

[dou-ich-er] / ˈdaʊ ɪtʃ ər /

noun

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

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dowitcher British  

/ ˈdaʊɪtʃə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of dowitcher

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

Example Sentences

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 Payne, Harry Thom

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 Hornaday, William Temple

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 Hornaday, William Temple

Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Though not of the same genus, the closet relative to the Wilson snipe is the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.

From Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast by Payne, Harry Thom