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A typical Arctic breeder wintering to the south in the Americas, its westerley distribution makes it by far the rarer of the two well-known Dowitchers on
this side of the Atlantic. Similarities between the two, especially in non-breeding plumages, mean that there may have actually been more than the one
British occurence, but Long-billed is definitely the commoner by a factor of two or three hundred. The right hand shot is the first confirmed British
record, being in juvenile plumage it was identified in part by the
tertial pattern which is diagnostic but unfortunately only in
juveniles.
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