Short-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".
