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 ...

With grouse and woodcock hunting season openers just around the corner, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that now is the time to make plans to spend some days in the woods.

FLOODWOOD TOWNSHIP — This is what the Fries family looks forward to all year. Not 100 yards out from where we parked the trucks, Viper, their diminutive female Gordon Setter, was already locked on ...

James Maunder Taylor was taken with American woodcock the moment he saw his first. “They’re quite colorful,” he said. “You can really see the cinnamon and the brown. Our woodcock are a lot paler.” The ...

For upland bird hunters seeking a challenge, consider pursuing the American woodcock. Pennsylvania boasts the greatest number of woodcock hunters in the Eastern Flyway, but that only amounts to about ...

With grouse and woodcock hunting season openers just around the corner, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources reminds hunters that now is the time to make plans to spend some days in the woods.

Woodcock hunting has been associated with ruffed grouse hunting, which will get more attention this year because of an apparent upswing is grouse numbers. Wisconsin’s woodcock season got underway ...

So much for the hope that a good spring nesting season would mean more ruffed grouse in the woods this fall. From Hugo’s Bar at Brimson to the Ruffed Grouse Society’s National Grouse and Woodcock Hunt ...

I'm tired. Tinker's tired, dozing away in her lair beneath the dining room table. We're bushed because of the diminutive woodcock, which earned its nickname "timberdoodle" for the way it corkscrews ...

A recent letter to the editor got me thinking, a sometimes dangerous activity where I’m concerned. It got me thinking about how hunters are a misunderstood group, sometimes even by those in their own ...

It’s been nearly thirty years since I last hunted upland birds at Fort Bragg while stationed there. Yeah, I hunted dove there this year with my son. But I’m talking now about walking through the ...