Photo of the Day #898: Short-billed dowitcher

By laelaps on April 4, 2010.

A short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), photographed in Cape May, New Jersey.

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That's the short-billed model!?

I thought the same thing, although, oddly enough, the bill of the long-billed dowitcher is not that much longer.

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