Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dowitcher \Dow"itch*er\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   The red-breasted or gray snipe ({Macrorhamphus griseus}); --
   called also {brownback}, and {grayback}.

Source : WordNet®

dowitcher
     n : shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe