Editing Short-billed dowitcher (section)

==Taxonomy==
The short-billed dowitcher was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1789 by the German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] in his revised and expanded edition of [[Carl Linnaeus]]'s ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it in the [[genus]] ''[[Scolopax]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Scolopax grisea''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1789 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 2 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=658 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2656151 }}</ref> Gmelin based his description on the "brown snipe" from the coast of New York that had been described in 1785 by the English ornithologist [[John Latham (ornithologist)|John Latham]] and by the Welsh naturalist [[Thomas Pennant]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Latham | first=John | author-link=John Latham (ornithologist) | year=1785 | title=A General Synopsis of Birds | volume=3, Part 1 | publisher=Printed for Leigh and Sotheby | location=London | page=154 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40078919 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Pennant | first=Thomas | author-link=Thomas Pennant | year=1785 | title=Arctic Zoology | volume=2 | publisher=Printed by Henry Hughs | location=London, United Kingdom | pages=464–465 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32122244 }}</ref> The short-billed dowitcher is now placed in the genus ''[[Limnodromus]]'' that was introduced in 1833 by [[Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Wied-Neuwied | first=Maximilian | author-link=Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied | date= 1832| title=Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte von Brasilien | volume=4 | language=German | location=Weimar | publisher= Im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs | page=716 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2796910 }}</ref> The genus name combines the [[Ancient Greek]] ''limnē'' meaning "marsh" with ''-dromos'' meaning "-racer" or "-runner". The specific ''griseus'' is [[Medieval Latin]] meaning "grey".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n227/mode/1up 227], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n178/mode/1up 178]}}</ref>  The English name "dowitcher" is from [[Iroquois]] and was first recorded in 1841.<ref name=OED>{{Cite OED |Dowitcher}}</ref>

Three [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=August 2022 | title=Sandpipers, snipes, coursers | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sandpipers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=6 November 2022}}</ref>
* ''L. g. caurinus'' [[Frank Pitelka|Pitelka]], 1950 – Breeds: Gulf of Alaska and inland central-south Alaska, southwest Yukon and montane northwest British Columbia (northwest Canada). Winters: central USA to Peru 
* ''L. g. hendersoni'' [[William Rowan (biologist)|Rowan]], 1932 – Breeds: central-north Alberta to west Manitoba (central Canada). Winters: southeast USA to Panama
* ''L. g. griseus'' (Gmelin, JF, 1789) – Breeds: southwest Hudson Bay and James Bay to west Labrador (central-east Canada). Winters: south USA to Brazil