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American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) Peent Call

4/21/2014

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Behavior of the  American Woodcock  - It spends  most of their time hidden in fields and on the forest floor, where they probe for earthworms. On spring nights, males perform very conspicuous displays, giving a buzzy peent call, then launching into the air. Their erratic display flight includes a distinctive, twittering flight sound and ends with a steep dive back to the ground.

Habitat of the American Woodcock - it nests in young, shrubby, deciduous forests, old fields, and mixed  forest-agricultural-urban areas across the eastern United States and southern Canada. They display in forest openings and old fields in the springtime, and  they often use clearings for roosting in the summer. On the western edge of their range, they may depend on moist, wooded riverside areas and wet meadows in  young woodlands. The American Woodcock spends the winter in similar habitats in southern part of breeding range, also moving into additional wintering habitat in Texas and on the southern edges of the Gulf States.

A new lifer by sound but have yet to see one.  Recorded the peent call on April 20, 2014 shortly after 9 pm yesterday evening.
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