PEENT!

🎶The boys are back. The boys are back in toooowwnn🎶

I wish I could’ve checked last night if they were here then; a lot of these birds were acting like fresh arrivals. Lots of growly fights over territory by these Stick-billed Peentatos.
#birds #spring #migration #shorebirds #woodcocks

Largest continuous habitat in southern #Maine to be protected from development https://www.pressherald.com/2024/09/23/largest-continuous-habitat-in-southern-maine-protected-from-development/

"#Eagles perch on towering mature #pines. #Wildflowers that provide nectar for migrating monarch #butterflies grow in a meadow where #woodcocks perform their mating dance flights in early spring. There is habitat for endangered and threatened #cottontails, #snakes and #salamanders.... the largest undeveloped tract on the Maine side of the #SalmonFalls estuary will now be forever protected"

A group of #woodcocks is called a fall.
A fall of woodcocks.

#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #birds #woodcock

#Woodcock has the brightest #feathers ever measured https://www.birdguides.com/articles/woodcock-has-the-brightest-feathers-ever-measured/

How #woodcocks produce the most brilliant white #plumage patches among the #birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.09.519795v2

The reverse surface of the white #EurasianWoodcock fail feather tips reflected around 55% of light, as measured using #spectrophotometry. This is around five times brighter than #SnowyOwl and 10 times brighter than the feathers of #ArcticRedpoll, both known for their startling white plumage.

Woodcocks are moving through the Chicago region on migration. I just flushed one in the schoolyard by our house. Watch for them as you walk, flying low to evade you in open fields, front yards, woodland edges. They still surprise me when I see them in the city.

#woodcocks #birds #migration

https://www.woodcockmigration.org/migration-archive.html