It may sound like one of those silly names used to mock birders, but the long-billed dowitcher is a real bird as is its cousin, the short-billed dowitcher. The name derives from a word originally used ...

People are often hustled into their rare moments, even those that would leave behind a lifetime of memories. Subramanian Sankar’s rare moment with a long-billed dowitcher can be parsed into a ...

Gurgaon: A rare migratory shorebird, the long-billed dowitcher, was sighted at Chandu Budhera wetland on Sunday during a routine bird walk. This is possibly the 13th documented occurrence of the ...

Gurugram: A rare sighting of a long-billed dowitcher at Mohammedabad village in Sonipat has triggered excitement among birders in Delhi-NCR, with experts saying this is the first sighting of the bird ...

A rare sighting of a long-billed dowitcher at Mohammedabad village in Sonepat has triggered excitement among birders in Delhi-NCR, with experts saying this is the first sighting of the bird in the ...

Here’s an avian conundrum for you: The “short-billed” dowitcher may have a longer bill than the “long-billed” dowitcher. Got it? Well, don’t feel bad, neither do most ornithologists and serious ...

The long-billed Dowitcher has so far been recorded only in Kerala, Maharashtra, Assam, Haryana and Rajasthan The bird which moves its bill in a sewing machine motion during feeding breeds in the ...

YAKUTSK, February 3. /TASS/. Experts of the Institute for Cryolithozone Biological Studies (the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Branch) point to the breeding expansion of Asian dowitcher into ...