Long-billed Dowitcher

28-33 cm (11-13") Common. Nests on Tundra, winters on fresh water ponds, marshes.

Robin-sized sandpiper feeds by probing mud with long straight black bill in a rapid sewing-machine motion. Yellow-green to gray legs.

Summer: mottled blackish and rust upperparts; mostly bright rusty underparts.

Winter: gray-brown above, whitish below.

In flight, bold white rump extends up back.

Dowitchers are best distinguished by voice.

Song: sharp "keek".

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