These odd little birds perform impressive dances in springtime| Gloucester County Nature Club

With three-inch beaks and plumage matching forest floors, woodcock migrate from the Gulf Coast to New Jersey each spring for ...
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The Weirdest Bird Courtship Dances Ever Caught on Camera

From the blue-footed booby’s clumsy dance steps to the superb bird-of-paradise’s dramatic feather display, these are eight birds that take dating rituals to bizarre extremes. It’s proof that when it ...
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This Bird’s Movement Isn’t a Dance, It’s a Message: Back Off!

Woodcocks are known for their unique and almost comical way of walking, which seems a better fit for a 1970s disco than the woodlands in which they live. The birds in this YouTube video step forward, ...
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Sky dance of the woodcock : the habits and habitats of a strange little bird / by Greg Hoch

BIRDMAI copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. "Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended ...