Long-Billed Dowitcher Probing in the Mud
by Jeff Goulden
Title
Long-Billed Dowitcher Probing in the Mud
Artist
Jeff Goulden
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Long-Billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird and member of the Scolopacidae or sandpiper family commonly found in a freshwater habitat. They feed by moving their long bill underwater in an up and down motion. Their diet consists of insect larvae, crustaceans and mollusks. The Long-billed dowitcher breeds throughout western and northern Alaska along the coast and south to the foothills of the Brooks Range. During the non-breeding season, dowitchers migrate along the Pacific Coast from southwest British Columbia to Baja California also moving inland to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Mexico. This long-billed dowitcher, reflected in the water, was photographed while probing for food along the shore of Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.
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April 8th, 2021
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Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020-2021 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L
Don Columbus
Congratulations, your work is Featured in "Birds In Focus" I invite you to place it in the group's "2020-2021 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Janet Marie
Congratulations, for the Homepage Feature, in the Art Group, “BEAUTY OF ARIZONA,” for the week of Friday, April 9, 2021! You are welcome to submit your featured artwork in the group's discussion thread, “APRIL-JUNE 2021 ''NEW'' Thanks & Features Archive” Thank you for sharing your artwork and being a member of the group. like/fave Janet🌵