woodcock
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New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
While migration and reproduction take a lot of energy, American woodcock reduce the cost in other ways, Slezak said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
The woodcock, also known as the timberdoodle, can be spotted on the ground beneath shrubbery, doing a groovy little dance.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
A bird conservation charity said it had been locked out of its Twitter account for eight days after posting several tweets about woodcock.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
For dinner we had a woodcock with souffle potatoes and puree de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Food writing as politically incorrect and unabashedly chauvinistic is as rare these days as, say, the roasted woodcocks Liebling seems to have eaten by the dozen.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2017
There are dozens of Scolopacidae species spanning the globe, and while close to two dozen have "sandpiper" in their names, many more don't: godwits, woodcocks, stints, knots, yellowlegs, etc.
From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2016
The Mighty Merlins knew from their reconnaissance that woodcocks started vocalizing about 4:30 a.m.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2016
In fact, it has a strong and growing following among experienced bird hunters who go after quail, doves, woodcocks, grouse and snipe.
From Time Magazine Archive
We traverse fields and forests, walk through barren lands where quails and woodcocks fly up at our feet, and, after twelve miles of bushwhacking, enter the Plattekill State Forest.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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