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dowitcher [dou-ich-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
Origin of dowitcher 1835–45, Americanism; perhaps tawístawis snipe Examples from the Web for dowitcher Historical Examples of dowitcher
Other shorebirds that eat leaf-beetles are the Wilson phalarope and dowitcher.
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