Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

Over the years, the diminutive size of these delicate birds have made it difficult to attach telemetry tracking devices, writes columnist V. Paul Reynolds. The American Woodcock, whether you hunt them ...

When I was a kid I watched wildlife TV shows. From birds of paradise” to platypus to “prairie chickens,” I marveled at the strange appearance and behavior of animals around the globe. “There’s nothing ...

Timberdoodle, night partridge, and bog sucker are a few of the colorful names by which the American woodcock has been known. Though a member of the shorebird family, woodcocks inhabit open woodlands ...

Ice covers have begun to leave southern Minnesota lakes, and the first common loons have arrived. We have seen an increase in the numbers of waterfowl, such as canvasbacks, redheads and ring-necked ...

Near the end of an unusually cold winter, the weather relented just a little, enough for spring peepers to begin peeping well in advance of spring. The sun had dipped below the horizon just a few ...

The American Woodcock Conservation Plan calls for halting and reversing declines of American woodcock (Scolopax minor) populations through creation and management of early successional forest (ESF).