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title: "Grote grijze snip"
description: "Limnodromus scolopaceus — Vogels. The long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird with a relatively long bill belonging to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/long-billed-dowitcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grote grijze snip

> Limnodromus scolopaceus — Vogels. The long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird with a relatively long bill belonging to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae.

- Scientific name: *Limnodromus scolopaceus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 23043
- Wikidata: [Q476350](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q476350)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3873](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3873)

## Names

- en: Long-billed Dowitcher
- de: Großer Schlammläufer
- es: Costurero pico largo
- fr: Bécassin à long bec
- nl: Grote grijze snip
- pt: Maçarico-escolopáceo-americano
- pl: Szlamiec długodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

US (11984), CA (2035), MX (1631), GB (75), RU (62), PT (39), TW (35), NI (31), JP (25), DE (20), ES (19), CN (18)

## Summary

The long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus) is a medium-sized shorebird with a relatively long bill belonging to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae. In breeding plumage, adults are characterized by a rufous head and underparts with a darker mottled back and a large white upper rump only seen in flight. They feed in various freshwater habitats with their bill underwater in a "sewing machine" motion and have a mating display where males chase females in flight. The genus, Limnodromus is  Ancient Greek  from limne, "marsh" and dromos, "racer". The specific scolopaceus is Neo-Latin for "snipe-like", from Latin…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-billed_dowitcher

## Photo

![Grote grijze snip](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-billed-dowitcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: S.MORE · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37819526

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-billed-dowitcher?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).