Long-billed Dowitcher (Lymnodromus scalopaceus)

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Introduction
 
Methods
 
Results
 
Acknowledgments
 
Literature Cited
 
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Species Accounts, Maps, Histograms, and Appendices
 
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Family Scolopacidae

Body Size: Medium
Foraging Guild: aquatic prober/gleaner
Foraging Habitat: Water depth - wet to 10 cm; vegetative cover - bare to sparse
Migration Distance: Intermediate
Migration Pattern: Widespread
Dispersion: Moderately dispersed; 60% of total maximum sightings occur in 6 spring and 6 fall 0.1° lat-long blocks.

Six sites with highest counts (see Appendix for more information):

1. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Management Area, Kansas

2. Great Salt Lake area, Utah

3. Lahontan Valley, Nevada, including Carson Lake and Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge

4. Minnewaukan Flats, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota

5. Sewage ponds, Devil's Lake, North Dakota

6. Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge

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