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| Long-billed Dowitcher Limnodromus scolopaceus
- Beginning to assume breeding plumage |
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| Photographer : | © Mayuresh Parab |
| Location : | Mumbai District, Maharashtra, India |
| Date : |
10 March 2020 |
| English synonyms: | Western Dowitcher, Greater Dowitcher, Greater Greyback, Greater Grayback, Greater Long-Beak, Western Red-breasted Snipe, Red-bellied Snipe, Red-breasted Snipe |
| Bird Family : | Tringinae - Godwits, Curlews, Shanks, Sandpipers, Tattlers, Turnstones, Dowitchers, Knots, Stints, Dunlin, Ruff & Phalaropes |
| Bird Group : | CICONIIFORMES |
| Red Data Status : | Least Concern |
| Remarks : | The Long-billed Dowitcher, a vagrant to India, has been sighted in this creek in Mumbai for the past two years, the first sighting being in the winter of 2017.
Now this year it has been tagged by the Bombay Natural History Society with tag number 4R7. - MP |
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