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Where does the Short-billed Dowitcher live?

Limnodromus griseus has 817,462 records in 68 countries and territories, from 1842 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Short-billed Dowitcher
Short-billed Dowitcher β€” Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesScolopacidaeLimnodromus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 650,382
Canada 99,897
Mexico 13,113
Costa Rica 7,457
Panama 5,060
Cuba 3,821
Puerto Rico 3,819
Colombia 2,803
Belize 2,483
Cayman Islands 2,132
Honduras 1,852
Bermuda 1,800
Venezuela 1,789
Brazil 1,652
Bonaire 1,634
Bahamas 1,612
Ecuador 1,600
CuraΓ§ao 1,343
Barbados 1,227
Nicaragua 1,153
El Salvador 1,087
Guatemala 1,049
Guadeloupe 923
Trinidad & Tobago 800
Aruba 731
Dominican Republic 658
US Virgin Islands 636
Peru 635
Turks and Caicos Islands 462
French Guiana 429
Portugal 379
Grenada 334
Saint Martin 334
Anguilla 242
Suriname 223
Guyana 208
Spain 175
Jamaica 175
Antigua & Barbuda 173
Chile 159

Showing the top 40 of 68 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.