Long-Billed Dowitcher Resting At Seaside Beach, It Is A Plump, Medium-Sized Shorebird With Very Long Bill. Extremely Similar To Short-Billed Dowitcher, And Often Flocks With It. Best Distinguished By Voice: A Sharp, High-Pitched “Keek!” Note, Sometimes Given In A Series, Unlike Lower-Pitched “Tu-Tu-Tu” Call Of Short-Billed. At All Ages, Look For Subtle Structural Differences: Long-Billed Averages More Hunch-Backed, Slightly Longer-Billed, And Slightly Taller, Especially Noticeable When In A Mixed Flock. Breeding Birds Have Solidly Salmon-Orange Underparts And Rather Dark Upperparts With Narrow Rufous Edges And White Tips.

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ages averages best bill birds breeding call dark differences distinguished dowitcher edges especially extremely flock flocks given highpitched hunchbacked keek long longbilled longerbilled look lowerpitched mediumsized mixed narrow note noticeable often plump rather rufous salmonorange series sharp shorebird shortbilled similar slightly solidly sometimes structural subtle taller tips tututu underparts unlike upperparts voice white