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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dantheman" data-source="post: 3173968" data-attributes="member: 32998">Quick look on the internet and unable to follow this one up ... But from what I remember on our visit in 2011  and looking into it a little at the time, Woodcock are sedentary on the islands (the breeders that is - there may be some augmentation from N Europe in winter?), have shorter bills and possibly larger.We came across a couple whilst driving past a small ravine next to a banana(?) plantation next to the main road in the SW of Teneriffe at night. Don't recall if there is a split, a proposed split, someone getting over-excited and no studies/analysis done, but on the basis that half the other resident species or so on the islands are of distinct forms/subspecies it seems a reasonable assumption to make - in any case, interesting to see.</blockquote>