woodcock

Most important, is it too late for the American woodcock to sue?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

"A lot of birds probably can't do it because they don't have these lower reproductive costs that woodcock have evolved to do," he said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024

In the spring and the fall, the American woodcock often makes an appearance.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

With one swing he tossed a brace of woodcock in the corner.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

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

When it appeared in Britain, Cott was at once snapped up by the British armed forces to make their guns as inconspicuous as woodcocks, their tanks as bush bucks, their planes as pickerel.

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