In this mural by artist Majo San, an American Woodcock peers out from a landscape of native New England aster and gray dogwood. As part of the Audubon Mural Project—a public-art initiative drawing ...

Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse hunting — widely considered the best in the nation — appears to be holding up this fall despite signs of natural population decline for the state’s most popular game bird.

When I was a kid I watched wildlife TV shows. From birds of paradise” to platypus to “prairie chickens,” I marveled at the strange appearance and behavior of animals around the globe. “There’s nothing ...

Near the end of an unusually cold winter, the weather relented just a little, enough for spring peepers to begin peeping well in advance of spring. The sun had dipped below the horizon just a few ...

The ruffed grouse and American woodcock seasons are well underway, and we want to hear how your season is going so far.

Timberdoodle, night partridge, and bog sucker are a few of the colorful names by which the American woodcock has been known. Though a member of the shorebird family, woodcocks inhabit open woodlands ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – There was no warning. After 45 minutes of squeezing between, limboing under and stepping over aspen trunks and hearing only the sound of leaves crunching underfoot, the air was ...

The Union County Board of County Commissioners and Department of Parks and Recreation invite the public to learn about the American Woodcock at the county’s annual Woodcock Talk and Walk events this ...

Last year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources sold 230,000 resident small-game licenses, fewer than 10% of which were issued to women. Only a small minority of Minnesota women chase ducks, ...