单词	dowitcher
释义	dowitcher /ˈdaʊɪtʃə / noun A wading bird of the sandpiper family, with a long straight bill, breeding in arctic and subarctic North America and eastern Asia. Genus Limnodromus, family Scolopacidae: three species. Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.... Common species of shorebirds, such as yellowlegs, dowitchers, black-bellied plovers and ‘peep,’ are often joined by pectoral, stilt and solitary sandpipers. Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader. Origin Mid 19th century: from Iroquoian.
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