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  Dowitcher Designs: Santa Barbara Graphic Design, Publishing and Editing
Dowitcher Designs is a full-service graphic design shop featuring the specialty services of desktop publishing, editing, and photography.
Dowitcher Designs is located in Santa Barbara, California and is able to meet at various locations in the areas of Santa Barbara, Goleta, and Ventura.
Some work may be produced in conjunction with Dowitcher Press.
dowitcherdesigns.com   (172 words)

  
  Identification of Dowitchers in the Pacific Northwest
Much useful information on dowitchers was found in the article, "The identification and migration of breeding plumaged dowitchers in southern Ontario," by Jaramillo, Pittaway, and Burke, as found in Birder's Journal 1(1):8-25, Oct. 1991.
Of the three races, or subspecies, of Short-billed Dowitchers, caurinus is the expected form in our region, though hendersoni is rare both in spring and fall as adults, and in the fall in juvenal plumage.
The upperpart feathers of juvenile Long-billed Dowitchers are quite plain: dark with thin cinnamon margins on the scapulars, and thin buff margins on the tertials (above, upper).
thebirdguide.com /identification/dowitchers/dowitchers.htm   (1679 words)

  
  Asiatic Dowitcher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Asiatic Dowitcher, Limnodromus semipalmatus, is a rare medium-large wader.
The confusion species for this bird is not, as might be expected, one of the American dowitchers, which in any case do not overlap in range, because the Asian bird is much larger.
It closely resembles a small Bar-tailed Godwit, although the dowitcher "sewing machine" feeding action and the yelping call are distinctions from the more widespread bird.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asiatic_Dowitcher   (210 words)

  
 Wildlife of the Suisun Marsh, Long and Short-billed Dowitcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dowitchers nest in grass or moss tundra, wet meadows, and bogs in boreal forests.
Dowitchers forage by moving at a slow steady pace while probing their heads rapidly up and down in soft moist mud, often completely submerging their heads.
Dowitchers probe the mud more vigorously than other species of sandpipers, leading to their foraging technique to be described as an "animated sewing machine".
www.iep.ca.gov /suisun_eco_workgroup/workplan/report/wildlife/dowitcher.html   (880 words)

  
 All About Birds
A medium to large shorebird with a long bill, the Short-billed Dowitcher is a common and conspicous migrant that uses a "sewing-machine" method of foraging across the mud flats.
Its long bill is short only in comparison with the very similar Long-billed Dowitcher.
The nesting grounds of the eastern race were not discovered until the late 1950s.
www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Short-billed_Dowitcher.html   (180 words)

  
 * Dowitcher - (Bird): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Short-billed Dowitcher is nearly identical in appearance to its cousin, the.
The Short-billed Dowitcher is common along the coasts and may be found at inland lakes and marshes in winter.
The female is about the size of a dowitcher, and the male is similar in size to a Greater Yellowlegs.
www.bestknows.com /bird/dowitcher.html   (289 words)

  
 Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Dowitchers are medium-sized shorebirds with long straight bills.
The short-billed dowitcher, Limnodromus griseus, breeds in northern Canada and southeastern Alaska.
The short-billed dowitcher migrates in mixed flocks down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and along the eastern plains.
dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov /rsgis2/Search/Display.asp?FlNm=limngris   (239 words)

  
 Audubon WatchList - Short-billed Dowitcher
Dowitchers are chunky, medium-sized shorebirds with pale, yellowish legs, and relatively long, straight, heavy bills.
Short-billed Dowitcher prefers protected coastal tidal flats on migration and on its wintering grounds, where it feeds on insects, mollusks, marine worms, and crustaceans.
Both dowitchers are rather distinctive in their "sewing machine" foraging habit, in which they wade in shallow water and probe deeply and repeatedly in the mud with their sizable bills.
audubon2.org /webapp/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=186   (1024 words)

  
 NatureWorks - Long-billed Dowitcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The long-billed dowitcher is 11-12 inches in length.
During migration and In the winter the long-billed dowitcher can be found on mudflats, marshes and at the edge of freshwater ponds and marshes.
The female long-billed dowitcher lays four eggs in a grass or leaf-lined nest on the ground.
www.nhptv.org /natureworks/longbilldow.htm   (253 words)

  
 Nearctica - Natural History - Birds of Eastern North America - Scolopacidae - Short-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus ...
In contrast the voice of the Long-billed Dowitcher is a sharp, high keek.
Breeding Range (see map below): The breeding range of the Short-billed Dowitcher is divided into three disjunct populations; one in upper Quebec and Labrador, one in the central region of Canada, and a third along the southern coast of Alaska.
Habitat: The Short-billed Dowitcher breeds in wet, southern tundra or along lakes and pools in northern boreal forest.
www.nearctica.com /birds/sandpipe/Lgriseus.htm   (424 words)

  
 Dowitcher Dilemmas
Since the dowitchers have been coming through the last week or so, I thought it would be a good time to give some hints on telling the Short-billeds (SBD) from the Long-billeds (LBD).
One note of interest I came across is that the name, Dowitcher, comes from the call it makes on its breeding ground during flight display and is very similar in both species.
Dowitchers come in three plumages: breeding (which may be pretty worn when they reach here and is beginning to be lost because of molt), juvenal (likewise), and non-breeding (which the other two plumages molt into).
www.saaudubon.org /articles/DowitcherDilemmas.html   (948 words)

  
 merritt
Once the Dowitcher has stuck its head into the kelp to feed (see the Dowitcher in the far right of the next picture) it is able to use the tip of the bill to feel for various organisms.
The Short-billed Dowitcher is on the far left, and the Sanderling is in front of the Dunlin.
The Short-billed Dowitcher is on the upper left, the Dunlin is on the right and the Western Sandpiper is on the lower left.
birdcentral.net /merritt.htm   (409 words)

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