The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) is a small chunky shorebird species from North America. It is popularly known as timberdoodle and a well-known game bird.
Adults have short pinkish legs and a very long straight pinkish bill with an articulated dark tip. The wings are rounded. The body is patterned cinnamon on top and a lighter brown underneath, with a cryptic lighter and darker pattern. They have large eyes located high in the head, and the...
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The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) is a small chunky shorebird species from North America. It is popularly known as timberdoodle and a well-known game bird.
Adults have short pinkish legs and a very long straight pinkish bill with an articulated dark tip. The wings are rounded. The body is patterned cinnamon on top and a lighter brown underneath, with a cryptic lighter and darker pattern. They have large eyes located high in the head, and their visual field is probably the largest of any bird, 360° in the horizontal plane, and 180° in the vertical plane.
Their breeding habitat is wet wooded areas in eastern North America. The northernmost birds migrates to the southern parts of the breeding range in winter. Based on the Christmas Bird Count results, winter concentrations are highest in the northern half of Alabama.
Migrating birds' arrival at and departure from the breeding range is highly irregular. In Ohio for example, the earliest birds are seen in February, but the bulk of the...
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