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WetlandScrapeMedium · 212 g
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Adults have dark legs and a long, straight dark bill, somewhat shorter than that of the long-billed dowitcher. The body is brown on top and reddish underneath in breeding plumage. The tail has a black and white barred pattern. The winter plumage is largely grey. Their breeding habitat is grassy wetlands in inland Siberia and Manchuria. They migrate to southeast Asia as far south as northern Australia, although both the breeding and wintering areas are poorly known. This bird is always found on coasts during migration and wintering. These birds forage by probing in shallow water or on wet mud.
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When to see the Asian Dowitcher
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Asian Dowitcher
The map shades 20 countries with regular records, and 5 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Brunei, Timor-Leste.
About the Asian Dowitcher
The Asian dowitcher is a medium-large wader in the Scolopacidae family of sandpipers.
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Easily confused with
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusAdults' bodies are dark brown on top and reddish underneath.
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusThe long-billed dowitcher is a medium-sized, stocky sandpiper with a bill about twice the length of its head.
Side by side: Asian Dowitcher vs Long-billed Dowitcher · Asian Dowitcher vs Short-billed Dowitcher
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