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title: "Szlamiec krótkodzioby"
description: "Limnodromus griseus — Ptaki. The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener, the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/short-billed-dowitcher
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Szlamiec krótkodzioby

> Limnodromus griseus — Ptaki. The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener, the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.

- Scientific name: *Limnodromus griseus*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 14914
- Wikidata: [Q371633](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q371633)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3869](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3869)

## Names

- en: Short-billed Dowitcher
- de: Kleiner Schlammläufer
- es: Costurero pico corto
- fr: Bécassin à bec court
- nl: Kleine grijze snip
- pt: Maçarico-de-costas-brancas / maçarico-de-bico-curto
- pl: Szlamiec krótkodzioby

## Countries with the most observations

US (7655), CA (1832), MX (380), PA (125), BR (84), CR (59), PR (51), CO (43), CU (43), HN (34), EC (32), GF (29)

## Summary

The short-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus griseus), like its congener, the long-billed dowitcher, is a medium-sized, stocky, long-billed shorebird in the family Scolopacidae.
It is an inhabitant of North America, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. It is strongly migratory; it completely vacates its breeding areas during the snow-bound months. This species favors a variety of habitats, including tundra in the north to ponds and mudflats in the south. It feeds on invertebrates often by rapidly probing its bill into mud in a sewing machine fashion. It and the very similar long-billed dowitcher…

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

## Photo

![Szlamiec krótkodzioby](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/short-billed-dowitcher/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andy Wilson · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/16375968

## Machine access

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