Woodcock
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| Family | Scolopacidae |
|---|---|
| Scientific name | Scolopax |
| Order | Charadriiformes |
| Length | American woodcock |
| Mass | Eurasian woodcock |
| American woodcock | |
| Did you know | An old folk name for the goldcrest was the "woodcock pilot" because of the mistaken belief that the warblers rode in the feathers of migrating woodcock. |
| Movies/Shows | Hero of the Hour |
| Torn | |
| Tess of the D'Urbervilles | |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: Cat Among the Pigeons | |
| Dorian Gray | |
| Collision | |
| Land Girls | |
| True Love | |
| Perfect Skin | |
| Powder | |
| Awards | Governor General's Literary Award for English-language non-fiction |
| Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 995319 |
About Woodcock
The woodcocks are a group of seven or eight very similar living species of wading birds in the genus Scolopax. The genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock, and until around 1800 was used to refer to a variety of waders. The English name was first recorded in about 1050.
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