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  Telling on Timberdoodles
Woodcock are shorebirds and are related to the sandpiper family (their closest relative may be the snipe).
Woodcock hens have been reported to carry a chick between their legs in flight - one of the few birds in the world to do so - but there are not many eye-witness accounts of this.
Woodcock are interesting to the students, and I tell them that the birds are adapted for a specific niche in nature.
mdc.mo.gov /conmag/1997/10/60.htm   (1518 words)

  
 NOSOISEAUX.CH - Le site de l'association Nos Oiseaux
Mulhauser, B. Situation of the Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola during the breeding season in the Canton of Neuchâtel between 1998 and 2000.
Estoppey, F. Demographics of a breeding population of Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola in western Switzerland from 1989 to 2000.
Between 1989 and 2000 a demographic study was made of the breeding population of the Eurasian Woodcock in western Switzerland using random sampling of listening points during the evening roding period.
www.nosoiseaux.ch /issue.php?m_id=0&id=13&langu=en&highligh=   (836 words)

  
 Woodcock
The woodcock are a group of 6 very similar wading bird species, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and flish plumage.
Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being localised island species.
These are woodland birds which feed at night or in the evenings, searching for invertebrates in soft ground with their long bills.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wo/Woodcock.html   (110 words)

  
 Woodcock - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The woodcock is a large bulky wading bird with short legs, and a very long straight tapering bill.
Most of the birds in the UK are residents; in the autumn birds move to the UK from Finland and Russia to winter here.
Woodcock on nest among dead leaves - S.C. Porter (rspb-images.com, Ref: 1610037_00025_004)
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/guide/W/Woodcock/index.asp   (276 words)

  
 Birds in Lincolnshire - Eurasian Woodcock at Saltfleetby December 2001, Lincolnshire by © Mike Tarrant
Birds in Lincolnshire - Eurasian Woodcock at Saltfleetby December 2001, Lincolnshire by © Mike Tarrant
During the Christmas period, I was fortunate to have two Eurasian Woodcocks present in my garden at Saltfleetby for at least two days.
Eurasian Woodcock at Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire - December 2001 by © Mike Tarrant
www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk /rare_birds/woodcock.htm   (236 words)

  
 Eurasian Woodcock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Eurasian Woodcock, Scolopax rusticola is a medium-small wader.
This species is the woodcock found through most of temperate and subarctic Eurasia.
This woodcock is replaced in the new World by the very similar but slightly smaller American Woodcock.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/e/eu/eurasian_woodcock.html   (232 words)

  
 Woodcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 flish plumage.
A number of woodcocks have become extinct long ago and are known only from fossil or subfossil bones.
Due to their close relationship to the Gallinago snipes, the woodcocks are a fairly young group of birds, even considering that the Charadriiformes themselves are an ancient lineage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Woodcock   (258 words)

  
 American Woodcock
We almost immediately saw the woodcock on the lawn adjacent to the third house from the northeast corner of the housing complex, exactly where Michael Patten had reported it.
All of these except Eurasian Woodcock are very localized on East Asiatic islands and are nonmigratory (Hayman et al.
This is the first apparently wild American Woodcock found in California although this species was released as a potential game species by the California Department of Fish and Game in the early 1970’s.
fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us /~jmorlan/American_Woodcock.html   (1402 words)

  
 iittala Toikka Eurasian Woodcock - 2007 Toikka Birds
The Woodcock's body is transparent with subtle brown and white markings.
Woodcock depends on it subtle markings to blend in with his woody surroundings as he rests during the day.
Eurasian Woodcock is not the official annual bird but it is a limited edition with production limited to 2007.
www.finnstyle.com /eurasian-woodcock-toikka.html   (260 words)

  
 Accomplishment Reporting Help Display
Every few years, the scientific woodcock community hosts this symposium to highlight recent research on American woodcock.
Woodcock symposia, or “workshops” as the first few were called, have effectively fostered communication of woodcock research and have proved to be the foundation for successful woodcock management internationally.
Several papers on Eurasian woodcock were presented; participants came from numerous states spanning Texas to Maine, as well as from the United Kingdom, France, and Belarus.
www.fws.gov /arsnew/regmap.cfm?arskey=20593&callingKey=region&callingValue=5   (313 words)

  
 Eurasian Woodcock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Woodcock's body is patterned cinnamon on top and grey underneath.
In many countries Woodcock are hunted as game.
A witnessed "right and left", in which a Woodcock is downed with each barrel of a shotgun, affords the shooter membership of the Shooting Time's prestigious Woodcock Club.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eurasian_Woodcock   (323 words)

  
 IUCN - The World Conservation Union - About
One of the first birds caught is a woodcock, a fairly large, mottled-brown wader with a long, narrow beak.
The bird closely fits the description of the Eurasian woodcock — but so does another specimen, recently collected elsewhere in the islands, that could be a new species of Philippine woodcock.
In addition to the woodcock, which is the first specimen netted in the Sierra Madre, six species have never before been described in the mossy forest of the Sierra Madre, and three of these have never been recorded anywhere at so high an altitude.
www.iucn.org /reuters/2001/asia.html   (2484 words)

  
 IngentaConnect Wintering behaviour and spatial ecology of Eurasian Woodcock Scol...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
IngentaConnect Wintering behaviour and spatial ecology of Eurasian Woodcock Scol...
The spatial ecology of wintering Eurasian Woodcocks Scolopax rusticola was investigated to determine whether hunting-free forest reserves offer adequate protection to all individuals.
The analysis of movements performed by 65 radiotagged Woodcocks during three consecutive winters in Brittany revealed the existence of three types of individual strategies.
www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/ibi/2005/00000147/00000003/art00009   (330 words)

  
 Ornithos - Winter ecology of Eurasian Woodcock
The Eurasian Woodcock is a migratory species with an uncertain conservation status, whose ecology and behaviour are largely unknown in winter.
Woodcocks are known to be sensitive to frost, and are threatened by habitat loss and high hunting pressures in winter, which is a period of enhanced vulnerability due to the concentration of populations.
Depending on their energetic needs (a function of air temperature) and their own foraging efficiency, individuals that increased their foraging effort during the day, could decide to stay in the forest at night in order to minimise predation risks.
www.eurobirding.com /birdingmagazines/artinfo.php?id=8469   (305 words)

  
 Radiotracking on animals -Tracking the woodcock on 148.035 MHz
He is a biology teacher, and he is fascinated by birds and observes, for several years, the behavior of the eurasian woodcock.
This year, he puts a small beacon on one of his birds, and needs the help of the european radio ham to have an idea of the movements of the bird.
The woodcock is a migratory bird that can cross several thousand of kilometers.
perso.orange.fr /f5zv/RADIO/RA/RA04/RA04z/Ra04z03.html   (438 words)

  
 Woodcock eye size and color
I've done many Eurasian woodcocks and haven't had any problems with inverting the head up to the beak without incisions.
Could be your American woodcock is more difficult to do though, because it's smaller.
Joe you can do it that way,you could hide it easier,that is how i do mine for attaching an artificial head.Our woodcock heads are much bigger and their necks are very small,it would be like pushing an orange througha straw.
www.taxidermy.net /forums/BirdTaxiArticles/06/c/062F5FCBF4.html   (1518 words)

  
 Winter Holland & Bulgaria, Birding Tours & Trips - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
The flat, polder marshes on the North Sea coast of the Netherlands present a contrast to the forested, hilly, and rural feel of Bulgaria.
On the ploughed fields, tidelines, and marshes are massive flocks of shorebirds such as Common Redshank, Eurasian Oystercatcher, Pied Avocet, Purple Sandpiper, European Golden-Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Eurasian Curlew, Black-tailed and Bar-tailed godwits, and Northern Lapwing.
With such a large wintering population of waterbirds there are many raptors, from Eurasian Kestrel and Eurasian Buzzard to Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Western Marsh Harrier, and White-tailed Eagle.
www.ventbird.com /tour/743   (583 words)

  
 Sightings 2003 Vogelplas Starrevaart en Vlietland
White-tailed Eagle 1 SW later on went east, Eurasian Skylark 58, Meadow Pipit 8, Water Pipit 2, Common Blackbird 6, Fieldfare 24, Song Thrush 14, Redwing 62, Common Reed Bunting 5.
, Mute Swan 31, Eurasian Coot 490, Ruff 4.
(75% Icelandic), Eurasian Curlew 63, Mediterranean Gull 2,
www.xs4all.nl /~sjaak/vwgvl/en/sightings/2003.html   (5762 words)

  
 Guide to Birds in Spain
Eurasian Sparrowhawk : gavilán común : esparver vulgar : Accipiter nisus
Eurasian Treecreeper (or Northern Treecreeper) : agateador norteño : raspinell pirinenc : Certhia familiaris
Skylark (or Eurasian Skylark) : alondra común : alosa vulgar : Alauda arvensis
www.iberianature.com /material/spain_birds/Birds_of_Spain.html   (6788 words)

  
 New woodcock from the Philippines
Bukidnon Woodcock Scolopax bukidnonensis is known from central and northern Luzon and four mountains on Mindanao.
Its montane forests are in extremely rugged terrain that is not conducive to farming and have few commercial trees for logging, so the species does not seem to be of immediate conservation concern.
The paper goes on to examine the taxonomic status of other species of Asian/Papuasian woodcocks and concludes that two formerly recognised subspecies of Rufous Woodcock S.
www.birdlife.org /news/news/2001/10/478.html   (201 words)

  
 Personal page of Dr. Olivier Duriez PhD ...
Factors affecting population dynamics of Eurasian woodcocks wintering in
Habitat selection of the Eurasian Woodcock in winter in relation to earthworms availability.
Wintering behaviour and spatial use by Eurasian woodcocks wintering in western
www.nioo.knaw.nl /PPAGES/oduriez   (721 words)

  
 birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
The higher areas of the lower mountain ranges for species such as Hazel Grouse, Eurasian Woodcock, Tengmal’s Owl, Eurasian Nutcracker, Common Raven and Common Redpoll.
The drier areas on the edge of the Rhine flatland for species such as European Honey-buzzard, Red Kite, Little Owl, Eurasian Nightjar, Hoopoe, Eurasian Wryneck, Middle-spotted Woodpecker, Wood Lark, Red-backed Shrike, Northern Shrike, Cirl Bunting and Rock Bunting on the stony hillsides.
Black Stork, Collared Flycatcher, Eurasian Eagle Owl and Crested Lark, which can only be found in a few special habitats.
www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/europe/germany_rhineland-palatinate.html   (502 words)

  
 Scotland: Hebrides and Highlands, Birding Tours & Trips - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature ...
Shorebirds include Northern Lapwing, Eurasian Golden-Plover, Common Ringed Plover, Purple Sandpiper, Common Redshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Eurasian Curlew, Eurasian Woodcock, Eurasian Oystercatcher, and Common Snipe—recently split from its North American counterpart.
Black Guillemot, Golden Eagle, Eurasian Buzzard, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Merlin, Eurasian Kestrel, Peregrine, Northern Harrier, Red-billed Chough, Barn and Tawny owls, Twite, White-throated Dipper, Rock Pipit, and Yellowhammer are regularly seen and resident breeding birds.
Islay has a long, colorful history: gaunt standing stones, Iron Age Forts, Celtic crosses, and Finlaggan: the power center over much of Scotland’s Atlantic coastline, and seat of the Lord of the Isles and Clan Donald in the 12th-15th centuries.
www.ventbird.com /tour/395   (563 words)

  
 woodcock - Definitions from Dictionary.com
either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
Woodcock, PA (borough, FIPS 86160) Location: 41.75360 N, 80.08431 W
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dictionary.reference.com /browse/woodcock   (138 words)

  
 Birds: Scolopacidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Genera of chewing lice known from the family:
Scolopax bukidnonensis Kennedy et al., 2001 - Bukidnon Woodcock
Scolopax minor Gmelin, J. F., 1789 - American Woodcock
www.phthiraptera.org /Birds/Scolopacidae.html   (184 words)

  
 Eagle-Eye Tours - Scotland
In the evening we have an opportunity to visit Abernethy Forest for displaying Eurasian Woodcock and the chance of finding Tawny Owl.
The marsh attracts nesting Eurasian Wigeon, Eurasian Teal, Northern Shoveler, Common Snipe and even national rarities such as Wood Sandpiper.
We make frequent stops, looking for Whinchat in the broom thickets, Eurasian Buzzards over the moors, loons on the lochs, dippers and wagtails along the streams, and generally absorbing the beautiful scenery.
www.eagle-eye.com /Locations/Scotland.html   (2030 words)

  
 FINLAND ITINERARY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Nearby forest, fields, and wetlands may yield Spotted Crake, Tawny Owl, Eurasian Wryneck, Icterine and River Warblers, and Red-backed Shrike.
Other owl species that we may find are Eurasian Eagle Owl, Great Grey Owl, and Tengmalm's (Boreal) Owl.
Possible species include Slavonian (Horned) Grebe, Spotted Crake, Eurasian Woodcock, Tawny Owl, Eurasian Wryneck, Thrush Nightingale, a host of warblers including Grasshopper, Reed, Great Reed, Blyth's Reed, Icterine, River, Barred, and Marsh, plus Red-backed Shrike and Ortolan Bunting.
www.birdtreks.com /itin/fin06.html   (1792 words)

  
 Birds of India - CICONIIFORMES - Accipiters - Aquilas - Falcons - Herons - Ardeidae - Birders - Birding in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus - widespread winter visitor & resident
Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus - widespread winter visitor
Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola - widespread winter visitor and resident
www.birding.in /orders/ciconiiformes.htm   (984 words)

  
 International Shorebird Gallery - Part 2
Eurasian Curlew, The Birds of Foula, Kenny Ensor
Eurasian Woodcock Scolopax rusticola [hand held], Copyright Steve Stansfield - from UK Birdlist
American Woodcock in Ohio (hand held portrait) © Victor W. Fazio, III
pw1.netcom.com /~djhoff/sbimage2.html   (616 words)

  
 Bird News from Norway
Vaggatem: 6 ind. Bean Goose in a field, 1M 1F Mallard, 1M 1F Common Goldeneye, 1M 1F Eurasian Bullfinch, 1M 1F Brambling
Nyrudneset: 4 ind. Whooper Swan, 10 ind. Bean Goose, 2M 2F Common Teal, 2M 2F Eurasian Wigeon, 6M 6F Tufted Duck, 1 ind. Common Snipe (G. Reinholdtsen).
Mellomneset, Svanvik: 4 ind. Common Crane, 8 ind. Bean Goose, 3M 3F Northern Pintail, 2M 2F Mallard, 1M 1F Eurasian Wigeon, 7 ind.
home.online.no /~egnter/birdnews2004.htm   (343 words)

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