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Scolopax minor

[edit] Identification

11" (28 cm). Extremely large bill with large bulging eyes placed high on head. Leaflike camouflage pattern, broadly barred crown.

[edit] Distribution

	Breeding range from Minnesota, southern Manitoba, and southern Ontario east to Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and south to northeastern Texas east to Georgia. Winters in southeastern Texas to northern and central Florida. Rare to accidental vagrant west and north of range.
	Legend • S. minor; breeding • S. minor; year-round • S. minor; wintering Maps/Texts consulted1,2,3

[edit] Taxonomy

A monotypic species.

[edit] Habitat

Decidious, damp woods.

[edit] Behaviour

Rises vertically when flushed.

[edit] References

1. Sibley, David A. 2000. The Sibley Guide to Birds. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780679451228
2. Keppie, D. M. and R. M. Whiting, Jr. 1994. "American Woodcock (Scolopax minor)." The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/100.
3. Brinkley, Edward S. 2007. Field Guide to Birds of North America. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 9781402738746

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