American woodcock Scolopax minor
Identification Tips:
Length: 8.25 inches
Dumpy, short-legged, short-tailed, rounded-winged shorebird
Explosive takeoff when flushed, wings make twittering sound in flight
Very long bill ...
American Woodcock Behaviour
No observations regarding American Woodcock behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about American Woodcocks ...
American Woodcocks breed from the Atlantic coast west to the edge of the Great Plains and from southern Canada to the Carolinas and Arkansas. They are permanent residents from west Texas through the southeastern United States.
American Woodcock. Publication 313 (901)
The Ruffed Grouse Society
AUTHOR: Joel Glover, Wildlife Biologist, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries ...
American Woodcock
(Scolopax minor)
Status: Summer Resident.
Last recorded on site in 2010
Breeding Status:-
1987 to 1991: Confirmed
1992 to 1996: Confirmed
1997 to 2001: Confirmed
2002 to 2006: Confirmed ...
American Woodcock
Scolopax minor Gmelin
Status Common in summer, very rare in winter. Breeds. First arrivals are noted from early March to month's end (average 21 March, earliest 27 February).
THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK, OR BOGSUCKER.
[American Woodcock]
MICROPTERA AMERICANA, Aud.
[Scolopax minor.] ...
American Woodcock (Philohela minor)
Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) ...
American Woodcock
Winter Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? yes
Downy Woodpecker
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
American woodcocks migrate at night [70,107]. They travel at low altitudes [79]. American woodcocks are usually solitary, but small and temporary aggregations may occur during migration, particularly during adverse weather [70,107,178].
The American Woodcock is actually a shorebird, a member of the same family (Scolopacidae) as sandpipers, knots, phalaropes, curlews, dowitchers, and snipe. Nonetheless, this bird will not, in most cases, be found anywhere near a marine shore.
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Dunlin (Calidris allpina)
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) ...
Relevant Web Resources: American Woodcock (USGS)
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Animals in pocosins include lots of species of reptiles, amphibians and rodents as well as black bears, bobcats, bats, white-tailed deer, opossums, raccoons, river otters, mink, muskrats, northern bobwhites, and American woodcocks.
Pin-tailed Snipe, Gallinago stenura (A)
Eurasian Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola (A)
American Woodcock, Scolopax minor
Wilson's Phalarope, Phalaropus tricolor
Red-necked Phalarope, Phalaropus lobatus
Red Phalarope, Phalaropus fulicarius ...
 See also: Woodcock, Snipe, Sandpiper, Dowitcher, Curlew
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