Related to sandpipers, the American Woodcock, Scolopax minor, or “timberdoodle,” is a shorebird that doesn’t live at the shore! Rather than live along bodies of water, this well-camouflaged, mottled, light brown bird inhabits deciduous forests where it spends most of its time feeding on the forest floor and nesting in depressions on the ground.
Avian Note Art 