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Scolopax minor (American Woodcock)

Synonyms: Philohela minor; Rusticola minor
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The American woodcock (Scolopax minor), sometimes colloquially referred to as the timberdoodle, is a small chunky shorebird species found primarily in the eastern half of North America. Woodcocks spend most of their time on the ground in brushy, young-forest habitats, where the birds' brown, black, and gray plumage provides excellent camouflage. Because of the male woodcock's unique, beautiful courtship flights, the bird is welcomed as a harbinger of spring in northern areas. It is also a popular game bird, with about 540,000 killed annually by some 133,000 hunters in the U.S.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
26
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 10.3139
EDGE Score: 2.42603

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  197 grams
Birth Weight [3]  12 grams
Female Weight [5]  219 grams
Male Weight [5]  176 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  24.4 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [2]  Temperate eastern forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  100 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [1]  15 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  3,500,000
Incubation [3]  20 days
Mating System [7]  Promiscuity
Maximum Longevity [3]  21 years
Wing Span [8]  18 inches (.45 m)
Female Maturity [3]  10 months
Male Maturity [3]  10 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Predators

Accipiter cooperii (Cooper's Hawk)[9]
Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[9]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cardiofilaria pavlovskyi[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
5Nelson, AD and AC Martin. 1953. Gamebird weights. J. Wildl. Manage. 17:36-42
6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
8Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
9Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0