Dowitcher long billed
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Long-billed Dowitcher
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For more information click here http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Long-billed_Dowitcher.html
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Newer photos 10/18/06 Gilbert Arizona at the
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Long-billed Dowitcher in the back ground, Least Sandpiper in the forground.
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These below are photographs of the bird in its winter plumage.
You will find these birds wading in the shallow waters a long shore lines.
It's approximately 12 inches long with a very long straight bill. Both sexes look the same.
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Photographed Salton Sea 01/2003
In their summer plumage they are a reddish brown color.
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