American Woodcock Family, Hen, Cock, and Chicks by Lynn Bogue Hunt
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| This quaintly beautiful game-bird of the swampy thicket has mysterious ways that scientists are studying. It is now believed that one thing needed to attract Woodcock are dancing grounds, suitable clearings in the thickets where the male can perform his courting antics in the air. The female Woodcock carries the downy young from a place of danger, flying with them, one at a time, between her thighs. The Woodcock breeds in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, and winters far enough south to find soft earth for its flexible probing bill. Woodcock diet is almost 100 percent angle-worms. |
