TROPIC and NEAR-TROPIC BIRD COLLECTION

Measuring American Woodcocks American Woodcock- Scolopax minor American Woodcock- Scolopax minor, Order Charadriiformes, Family Scolopacidae. A shorebied that lives in forests eating earthworms! Tip of bill specialized fro catching earthworms! Known for their famous spring peenting displays. A life first for me. While mist netting in Miami University Birding Observatory with Drs. Jill and Dave Russel, and a host of others, an American Woodcock was captured in the mist nets. What a beautiful Bird! Photo: September 10, 2005, Canon EOS-1D Mark II camera with 100 f/2.8 Macro lens More Species Info: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/programs/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Woodcock.html

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Photos Copyright R. Hays Cummins. Authorization required. For permission, contact bigbendwildlands@gmail.com

Sources of species identification and other amazing info include (1) Cornell Lab of Ornithology--a fantastic site; (2)Birds of Eastern and Central North America, Peterson Field Guide Series, Fifth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company; (3) The National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide to Birds and (4) Field Guide to the Birds of North America, Third Edition, National Geographic, Washington, D.C.