American woodcock - Wikipedia
The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister [2] [3] is a small shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America.
Woodcock - Wikipedia
Woodcock. The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of sandpipers in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. …
American Woodcock Identification - All About Birds
American Woodcocks are plump, short-legged shorebirds with very long, straight bills. Their large heads, short necks, and short tails give them a bulbous look on the ground and in flight. The wings are broad and rounded compared to most other shorebirds.
10 Fun Facts About the American Woodcock | Audubon
2022年3月25日 · The American Woodcock is the only member of its family native to North America, with the seven other woodcock species found in Europe and Asia. Their closest relatives are a group of shorebirds known as snipes.
American Woodcock | Audubon Field Guide
Related to the sandpipers, but strikingly different in habits. This rotund, short-legged bird hides in forest thickets by day, where it uses its long bill to probe in damp soil for earthworms.
American Woodcock - All About Birds
Superbly camouflaged against the leaf litter, the brown-mottled American Woodcock walks slowly along the forest floor, probing the soil with its long bill in search of earthworms. Unlike its coastal relatives, this plump little shorebird lives in young forests and shrubby old fields across eastern North America.
American Woodcock - American Bird Conservancy
Population: Approximately 3.5 million. Trend: Decreasing. Habitat: Shrubby fields, forest edges, wet meadows. One of the American Woodcock's more colorful folk names is “timberdoodle,” probably for the bird's forest-edge haunts, erratic flight, and twittering call notes.
American Woodcock Range Map - All About Birds
Superbly camouflaged against the leaf litter, the brown-mottled American Woodcock walks slowly along the forest floor, probing the soil with its long bill in search of earthworms. Unlike its coastal relatives, this plump little shorebird lives in young forests and shrubby old …
Woodcock and Wilson’s Snipe - Pennsylvania Game Commission
The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) is known by a host of folk names: timberdoodle, night partridge, big-eye, bogsucker and mudsnipe. It has big eyes and a bill that looks too long for its body. Most active at dusk and dawn, a woodcock uses …
American Woodcock - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on
The American woodcock (Scolopax minor) is a small chunky shorebird found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' plumage provides excellent camouflage.