In a 2019 file photo, Debbie Petersen holds a woodcock chick out for her dog, Riley, to sniff after the pair found the bird's nest in Itasca County, Minn. Petersen and Riley have been helping ...

This story originally featured on Field & Stream. My woodcock season opens right about now. The landscape is colorless, trees are still black skeletons, but these little birds are seemingly ...

The 11th Woodcock Symposium will take place Oct. 25-27 in Roscommon and is considered the preeminent North American conference on the conservation of this game bird.

They are folk names for one of Hunterdon County’s strangest birds: the American Woodcock. Timberdoodle, bogsucker, night partridge, brush snipe, hokumpoke, and becasse.

MIDLAND COUNTY -- It was a perfect day for a bird hunt: cool, breezy with plenty of moisture in the air. But when Dave Prawdzik of Clare turned out his English Setter, Sadie, it felt odd to be ...

Woodcock are attracted to those places because they're home to the bird's food source. Mostly, that's earthworms. And the birds are uniquely equipped to find them.

Unique bird. Woodcock are small and rotund, approximately the size of robins. Females measure 11-12 inches long and weigh about 7.6 ounces. Males measure 10-11 inches long and weigh about 6.2 ounces.

It also makes the Eurasian woodcock the brightest bird on the planet – or at least of those known to science. The study was published in the Journal of The Royal Society Interface.

As warmer temperatures hit the McHenry County area, Volo Bog State Natural Area in Ingleside is gearing up with several outdoor activities for nature lovers.Two of those programs are guided walks ...

A bird in sight: Learning to see, on my own, woodcocks sky dance by transferring the teaching of others ... Woodcock eat earthworms, so they prefer damp soil areas or wetlands, ...