PressofAtlanticCity.com: Timberdoodles mate or crash trying
Photo credit: birds.camden.rutgers.edu
Nature loves to let us know when spring has sprung. Trees start to bloom. The weather is getting warmer. Birds spiral up to the sky and then come crashing down to attract a mate.
That last one may sound a bit strange, but the mating display of the American woodcock - also known as a timberdoodle, night partridge and even bogsucker - is one of nature's most interesting ways of letting the world know that the transition from winter to spring has begun.
That last one may sound a bit strange, but the mating display of the American woodcock - also known as a timberdoodle, night partridge and even bogsucker - is one of nature's most interesting ways of letting the world know that the transition from winter to spring has begun.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 4/11/2010 6:00 AM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: american woodcock shorebird bogsucker timberdoodle spring night partridge
Categories: Birds
Tags: american woodcock shorebird bogsucker timberdoodle spring night partridge
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