Short-billed Dowitcher

The Short-billed Dowitcher is a medium-sized shorebird with a bill twice as long as its head. It has moderately long, pale legs. Juvenile plumage includes a buffy chest and flanks, less spotting and barring than breeding adults. The back feathers are dark centered with broad buffy edges, giving a slightly scaly appearance, and the tertials are dark with orange pattern inside ("tiger-striped").

References cited in Species Profile

• Brown, S., C. Hickey, B. Harrington, and R.Gill, eds. 2001. United States Shorebird Conservation Plan, 2nd ed. Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, Manomet, MA. http://www.fws.gov/shorebirdplan/USShorebird/downloads/USShorebirdPlan2Ed.pdf
• Szalay, F., D. Helmers, D. Humbug. S.J. Lewis, B. Pardo, and M. Shieldcastle. 2000. Upper Mississippi Valley/Great Lakes Regional Shorebird Conservation Plan. Version 1.0. In U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. http://www.shorebirdplan.fws.gov/
• Kreitinger, K. 2013. Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus). Wisconsin All-Bird Conservation Plan. http://www.wisconsinbirds.org/plan/species/sbdo.htm
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 2015. Short-billed Dowitcher. All About Birds. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/short-billed_dowitcher/id
• Jehl, Jr., Joseph R., Joanna Klima and Ross E. Harris. 2001. Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromusgriseus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/564
• Howe, M. A., P. H. Geissler, and B. Harrington. 1989. Population trends of North American shorebirds based on the International Shorebird Survey. Biol. Conserv. 49:185-199.