Front:
BOGUE
HUNY
AMERICAN WOODCOCK
Hen
Cock
Back:
Subject 15
RESTORE
PROTECT • CONSERVE
WORK LIKE A BEAVER FOR RESTORATION
TRADE MARK REGU.S.Aton.
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
WOODCOCK
air. The female Woodcock
(Philohela minor)
carries the downy young from
a place of danger, flying with them,
This quaintly beautiful game-bird of the one at a time, between her thighs. The
swampy thicket has mysterious way Woodcock breeds in the northeastern
that scientists are studying. It is now be- United States and eastern Canada, and
lieved that one thing needed to attract winters far enough south to find soft
Woodcock are dancing grounds, suitable earth for its flexible probing bill. Wood-
clearings in the thickets where the male cock diet is almost 100 percent angle-
can perform his courting antics in the
worms.
NAME
CITY.
Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
