woodcock
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New Yorkers can’t get enough of the strutting woodcock.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026
Another evolutionary driver of itinerant breeding in woodcock could be predation.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
It was hoped species such as lapwing, redshank and woodcock would find a haven in the wet woodland, while otters and water voles would use the restored network of waterways as corridors and breeding habitat.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 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
Among them is the woodcock, a species that winters in southern areas recently heavily sprayed with heptachlor.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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
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