The Asian Dowitcher probes wetland mud with its long bill and moves between breeding and wintering areas.
When feeding in wetlands, it reaches its long bill into the mud.
It nests in small colonies, then gathers in larger flocks at stopover and feeding sites.
It breeds in small colonies. Nests include grass-lined shallow ground depressions and structures of grass stems and dead leaves built over shallow water.
On breeding grounds it eats small fish, insect larvae and oligochaete worms. During migration and winter it takes polychaetes, insect larvae and mollusks.
It has a dark bill and legs. Nonbreeding birds are gray-brown with fine streaking on the face, neck and chest. Juveniles have clear pale upperpart feather edges and a buff wash on the streaked chest. The underwing is pale, with densely barred axillaries.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.