The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zool.) The red-breasted or gray snipe (Macrorhamphus griseus); -- called also brownback, and grayback. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dowitcher n 1: shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe