What is the American Woodcock?
American Woodcock is a type of coast found in the middle and eastern United States and South Canada. It measures 9.8 to 12.2 inches (25 to 31 cm) long and has a range of 16.5 to 18.9 inches (42 to 48 cm). Females are usually larger than men. The scientific name for the bird is Scolopax Minor and has several color popular names, including Timberdoodle, Bog-Sucker, Mudsnipe and Labrador Twister. American Woodcock is a gaming bird and one of the few shorebirds hunted for sport. He lives in damp thickets and open wooded areas. At night it performs its feeding, hunting earthworms in damp soil with a long account that has a flexible and sensitive tip specialized for this task. Approximately 60 percent of the bird's diet are earthworms, as well as flies, snails, beetles, seeds and others. Little, brown, pale yellow and muted orange, which help him mix with his surroundings. It has short legs, short tail and compact body. A particularly interesting feature of American Woodcock is his big eyes that are located DaLeko on his head to allow him to make a wide field of view. Although his head is at the bottom of the feeding, he can pay attention to possible predators who are coming from above.
Thebrain of the American Woodcock is unique among birds, while the brain is located under the rest of the brain and above the spine. In most other birds, the brain is located in the back of the skull. There are different theories among scientists about why the bird is as follows.
Breeding and breeding are characteristic of American Woodcock. The courtship display includes groups of male birds known as "lessons", which are collected as dawn and dusk. Birds up the spiral up to the air and achieve anywhere from 100 to 300 feet above the ground before spinning and landing, and then repeat the process. Flights are interrupted by the nasal "punctual" sounds and chirping. American woodcuts do not form steam and when eggs are laid & Emdash; Most nests include four & Emdash; The woman performs allErou work in raising chickens.
American Woodcock is marked as a kind of concern to the American Shorebird protection plan due to loss of habitats and possibly moving in some areas. Today, approximately 5 million American Woodcocks lives. At the global level, the American Woodcock is not considered to be the kind of high concern of the International Union to maintain nature (IUCN), which maintains a database of endangered species.