Woodcocks
The woodcocks are a group of seven extant very similar wading bird species in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage.
Woodcock
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see snipe.
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Snipe - common name for a shore bird of the family Scolopacidae native to the Old and New Worlds.
Woodcock
Birds closely related to snipe, the five or six species of woodcock belong to the sandpiper family, Scolopacidae ...
Woodcocks normally migrate at night, moving across the countryside in loose, scattered congregations at low altitudes, but on 31 October 1931 I saw one in broad daylight at Black River flying overhead at an altitude of perhaps 100 m, ...
Woodcock are considered at their best for culinary purposes from October to December. After shooting, the birds are hung until 'high' to maximise the flavour; the meat can be eaten as a starter, savoury, or for breakfast. A Woodcock serves one person.
The woodcock is a ground nesting bird. The spring hatch takes 20 to 21 days, with an average of four young. Young woodcock are able to fly in 25 days. They are independent in six to eight weeks.
Food
Earthworms, grubs and insects.
American Woodcock Behaviour
No observations regarding American Woodcock behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about American Woodcocks ...
American Woodcocks do not form pairs. Males may mate with several females and do not participate in raising the young.
American Woodcock. Publication 313 (901)
The Ruffed Grouse Society
AUTHOR: Joel Glover, Wildlife Biologist, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries ...
AMERICAN WOODCOCK, Scolopax minor, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 474.
Male, 11, 16. Female, 11 7/12, 17 1/4.
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
(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 ...
Ref:
Kennedy, Robert S.; Fisher, Timothy H.; Harrap, Simon C.B.; Diesmos, Arvin C: & Manamtam, Arturo S. (2001): A new species of woodcock from the Philippines and a re-evaluation of other Asian/Papuasian woodcock Forktail 17(1): 1-12.
Woodcock
The woodcock is a large bulky wading bird with short legs, and a very long straight tapering bill. It is largely nocturnal, spending most of the day in dense cover. Most of the birds in the UK are res... More...
Woodlark ...
Woodcock, American Scolopax minor Found: North America
Photographed by Steve Byland
Genus Phalaropus ...
A Woodcock-Native To North America-Dines On An Imported Delicacy. Photo:Ronald SI ...
Woodcock hunters must obtain a Massachusetts HIP (Harvest Information Program) number, but federal and state stamps are not required for woodcock, snipe, rail or coot. More information on HIP requirements.
Martin Woodcock painted the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock and Guinean Cock-of-the-Rock, and the Black-necked Red-Cotinga; from The Cotingas (1982) by David Snow (British Museum), and the Giant Pitta; from Pittas, ...
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].
American Woodcock (Philohela minor)
Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) ...
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.
Woodcock, Quart. Journ. Mic. Sci. (1906), 50, p. 150. The principal original papers referred to are: (la) A. Billet, " Culture d'un trypanosome de la grenouille chez une hirudinee," &c., C. r. ac. sci. (1904), 1 39, p.
American Cocker Spaniel History: The name cocker comes from the fact that the breed originally hunted woodcock.
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis)
Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
Dunlin (Calidris allpina)
Greater Yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla) ...
Phalaropes are Shorebirds related to Sandpipers, Dowitchers, Curlews, Godwits, Dowitchers, Snipes, Turnstones, and Woodcocks. Order Charadriformes Family Scolopacidae.
This meant that the American Cocker Spaniel was the ideal size for flushing smaller game-birds such as Quails and Woodcock out of their hiding places with ease.
Includes Snipe, Woodcock, Turnstones. Said to be the largest family in Charadriiformes, with 81 species in 21 genera. Fully 43 Scolopacids are seen in North America (hey, you may have to go to the Aleutians for some....).
Scolopax rusticola - Eurasian Woodcock
Numenius
Numenius borealis - Eskimo Curlew
Numenius americana - Long-billed Curlew (photo)
Numenius phaeopus - Hudsonian Curlew
Actitis
Actitis hypoleucos - Common Sandpiper (photo) ...
Feeding behaviour was most interesting, the bird rocking its body rhythmically up and down like a woodcock and as if on springs.
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.
Pleske's grasshopper-warbler (Locustella pleskei)
Ryukyu woodcock (Scolopax mira)
Chosenia (Chosenia arbutifolia)
Moluccan ironwood (Intsia bijuga)
Imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca)
Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) ...
Smith, A. B. 1955. Sora Rail populations in Alberta, 1953-54. Pages 59-62 in Investigations of woodcock, snipe, and rails in 1954. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Science Report 28.
Other varieties include the Jack Snipe which is a game bird of the meadows and marshes. Having a flamboyant courtship dance, circling and diving. The woodcock or mud snipe on nocturnal woodland birds.
As the dam decays, the water level falls, a sedge meadow appears and white-tailed deer replace the moose. As coarse grass takes over, woodcock move in. Finally the dam gives way and the fringe of alders spreads to deposit rich leaf mould.
 See also: Snipe, Sandpiper, Curlew, Sparrow, Eagle
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