Short-billed Dowitcher

Limnodromus griseus

'Dowitcher' is one of the few bird names from a Native American language: it's probably Iroquoian, related to the Oneida word tawístawis. Its scientific name means 'gray marsh-runner.'

Limnodromus joins the Greek limnē, 'marsh,' and dromos, 'runner'; griseus is Medieval Latin for 'gray.' The name was first recorded in English in 1841.