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dowitcher

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dowitcher: see snipe snipe, common name for a shore bird of the family Scolopacidae ( sandpiper family), native to the Old and New Worlds. The common, or Wilson's snipe (Capella gallinago), also called jacksnipe, is a game bird of marshes and meadows.
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2) Dowitchers, migrating shorebirds, visit the Kern National Wildlife Refuge.
WHERE BIRDS SAY: FILL 'ER UP by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Eager's Miss Dowitcher is an accurate representation of librarians' self-image.
Sacred Texts: What Our Foremothers Left Us in the Way of Psalms, ... by JENKINS, CHRISTINE / The Horn Book Magazine
Some 200 bird species, including oystercathers, plovers, sandpipers, whimbrels and dowitchers, prefer beaches, mud flats, swamps, marshes or back bays along the North American coastline to inland areas.
Plight of the plover by Fackelmann, Kathy A. / Science News
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