With nicknames like timberdoodle and bogsucker, you’d think it’d be hard to be taken seriously. And yet hundreds of naturalists from around the world will converge on Michigan this fall to discuss ...

Timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, and becasse. What do all these strange names have in common? They are folk names for one of Hunterdon County's strangest birds: the ...

The American woodcock has one of the oddest appearances of any bird in Pennsylvania, with an amazingly long bill protruding from a round head atop a stocky, round body. It also has one of the more ...

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 ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife has partnered with biologists from Canada into the southern United States to help better understand the migration patterns of the ...

If you’re in the right place at the right time during the coming month, you might have a chance to witness one of nature’s most impressive courtship flights. The American woodcock, also called the ...

The Union County Board of County Commissioners and Department of Parks and Recreation invite the public to learn about the American Woodcock at the county’s annual Woodcock Talk and Walk events this ...

GLADWIN COUNTY, MI – The American woodcock will soon begin its annual courtship rituals in Michigan, which includes a dramatic spiraling aerial courtship dance. “The dramatic dance of the American ...

With nicknames like timberdoodle and bogsucker, you’d think it’d be hard to be taken seriously. And yet hundreds of naturalists from around the world will converge on Michigan this fall to discuss ...