- American woodcock - Wikipedia
The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, mudbat, bogsucker, night partridge, or Labrador twister[3][4] is a small shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America
- American Woodcock Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of . . .
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
- 10 Fun Facts About the American Woodcock | Audubon
American Woodcocks are perhaps the most memeable birds on the continent With their cartoonish looks and quirky behaviors, these coy and plump internet favorites are met with fans everywhere they go In the eastern United States and Canada, they are among the first spring migrants
- Woodcock: The Strangest Gamebird - Field Stream
Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat Their
- American Woodcock - American Bird Conservancy
The American Woodcock is the only member of its family native to North America, with seven other woodcock species occurring in Europe and Asia It is a short-distance migrant, moving from the northernmost parts of its range to the Atlantic coast and Gulf states each fall
- Woodcock | Migration, Habitat Diet | Britannica
Woodcock, any of five species of squat-bodied, long-billed birds of damp, dense woodlands, allied to the snipes in the waterbird family Scolopacidae (order Charadriiformes)
- American Woodcock - eBird
Might be confused with Wilson’s Snipe, but woodcock is not nearly as dark and patterned Fairly common throughout eastern North America, but secretive and rarely seen well in daytime Always on the ground, except during well-known elaborate courtship display performed from dusk to dawn in spring
- American Woodcock - NH Audubon
As shorebirds go, the American Woodcock is an outlier in several respects First off, it is completely terrestrial and almost never encountered in habitats wetter than damp woods
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