While the woodcock’s beak isn’t particularly large, it’s relatively long (2.5-2.75 in) compared to the bird’s measurements.

CHESTER - Glassing the flat-brown fields at the Elizabeth D. Kay Environmental Center failed to immediately yield any sign of ...

From birds of paradise” to platypus to “prairie ... season and fish runs in the local rivers start soon About that beak A woodcock’s beak has a prehensile tip. Imagine a long skinny pair ...

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

The aerial acrobatics of this squat shorebird's courtship display once awed Aldo Leopold. Judge for yourself at a guided bird ...

Pictured above is the American Woodcock, also known by some as timberdoodles according to the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. With ...

The American Woodcock (Scolopax minor), a.k.a. Timberdoodle, is a migratory game bird in the shorebird family Scolopacidae.

Taking a closure look, it's impressive to see how the stripes and spots on the woodcocks' feathers help them blend seamlessly ...

From singing American robins to the rat-a-tats of various objects by woodpeckers, to trumpeting trumpeter swans and much more ...

Look at the beak we were talking Look how long that ... Yeah, but it's much smaller bird. to the Woodcock. It is smaller. More streamlined. But the biggest difference are the stripes on his ...