Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:19:53 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "J. B. Churchill" Subject: Re: Woodcock Survey In-Reply-To: <00a301bf87ed$450f6920$6656f7a5@andylaura> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 11:26 PM 3/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >Dave, > > Curious about your question, I looked in a couple of books for relevant >info. > > The Birder's Handbook (Erlich, Dobkin & Wheye, p.140) says, "Male >begins advertising flight when still on wintering ground." (A couple other >books say this happens in southern states, so we probably don't see it >here.) I have seen Woodcock displaying once or twice in mid-January at Assateague Island, MD. > This is from the Stokes Guide to Bird Behavior, Vol. 3, p. 59: > >"Display-flights continue well into the summer, long after the females have >finished mating and are involved with raising broods. These later flights >may be those of juvenile males rather than adults. The flights may also >start early in the year and sometimes occur even while males are on >migration in the spring. Some flights also occur in fall." > >Andy Rabin >Gaithersburg, MD >andyrab@wam.umd.edu > >----- >I have a question re: the woodcock displays for anyone(s) out there who >might answer. If the woodcocks are doing their displays and are peenting at >a certain spot, does that mean that they will nest and breed at or near that >location; or, is it possible that they are still migrating and are just >displaying along their migration route?? Thanks for any info. regarding >this activity. >------ > >======================================================================= >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= ====================================================== John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 West Virginia University ext. 4456 Natural Resource Analysis Center http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================