Species: Limnodromus griseus

Short-billed Dowitcher

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Birds

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Terrestrial vertebrates: birds

Salish Sea-reliant birds

Species of concern in the Salish Sea

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Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Craniata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Scolopacidae

Genus

Limnodromus

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Classification

Other Global Common Names

Costurero Pico Corto - Maçarico-de-Costa-Branca - bécassin roux

Informal Taxonomy

Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Shorebirds

Formal Taxonomy

Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae - Limnodromus - .

Ecology and Life History

Migration

false - false - true - Migrates regularly along Pacific coast of North America, through interior prairie region of North America, and along Atlantic coast (AOU 1983). Arrives in nesting areas May-June after northward migration through U.S. and Canada. Adults begin migrating southward as early as late June-early July. Juveniles migrate later, seen most commonly in U.S. August-September (Terres 1980). Migrates through Costa Rica early August-late October and late March-late May (Stiles and Skutch 1989).

Non-migrant

false

Locally Migrant

false

Food Comments

Probes mud and sand (usually through shallow water) in search of insects (larvae of flies, water beetles, and other aquatic insects), marine worms, crustaceans, and mollusks.

Reproduction Comments

Breeding begins late May to early June (Harrison 1978). Four eggs incubated by both sexes. Incubation probably lasts about 21 days. Nestlings are precocial. Females takes little part in raising brood, may leave breeding area in late June (Hayman et al. 1986).

Ecology Comments

Nonbreeding: normally in flocks.

Length

Weight

116

Conservation Status

NatureServe Global Status Rank

Global Status Last Reviewed

1996-11-26

Global Status Last Changed

1996-11-26

Other Status

LC - Least concern

Distribution

Conservation Status Map

Global Range

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDS: southern Alaska, central Canada from southern Yukon, southern Mackenzie, and northeastern Manitoba south to east-central British Columbia, central Alberta, and central Saskatchewan; from interior of Ungava Peninsula south (probably) to northern Ontario (AOU 1983). WINTERS: central California, southern Arizona, Gulf Coast, and coastal South Carolina south through Middle America and West Indies to central Peru (only to Ecuador according to Morrison and Ross 1989) and east-central Brazil (in South America, 97% on north coast, especially Suriname and north-central coast of Brazil between Belem and Sao Luis; Morrison and Ross 1989). Accidental in Hawaii. Nonbreeders may summer in winter range.

Global Range Code

Global Range Description

>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)

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