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Dowitchers
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Dowitchers

Limnodromus

The three dowitchers are medium-sized long-billed wading birds in the genus Limnodromus. The genus name is Ancient Greek from limne, "marsh" and dromos, "racer". The English name is from Iroquois (1841).

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 3 known species

Long-billed Dowitcher

speciesLimnodromus scolopaceus

Short-billed Dowitcher

speciesLimnodromus griseus

Asian Dowitcher

speciesLimnodromus semipalmatus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 3867.